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Index
Cover
Half-Title
Series
Title
Copyright
Contents
Dedication
Introduction
Conform to Confound
Razing Hopes
Hidden Messages in Songs
A Blessed Book Curse
Listen for a Counterexample
Schopenhauer’s Intelligence Test
A Knucklehead on My Premises
The Tversky Intelligence Test
A Matter of Life and Death
The Identity of Indiscernibles
Indiscernible Pills
Telling a Clover from a Plover
The Emotional Range of Logicians
A Pebble from the Baths of Caracalla
Assassination Proof
How to Succeed Your Successor
Not All Logicians Are Saints
Lewis Carroll’s Peek at Meno’s Slave Boy
The Elderly Scientist
More Proof!
Emily Dickinson’s Hummingbird
Plato’s Packing Problem
Telepathy for the Absent-Minded
Order of Absence versus Absence of Order
Neglect of the Absent
Child Proof
Wittgenstein’s Parallelograms
Knowing the Area of a Parallelogram
Freud versus the Dreaming Logicians
Do Butterflies Dream?
Descartes’s Disappearance
The Most Fairly Distributed Good
Fairness Framed
Towards a Fairer Share of Dishwashing
What the Dishwasher Missed
Developmental Self-Defeat
Random Quiz
Enforcing Gresham’s Law
Gresham’s Law of Numbers
Laziest Reductio
Imaginary Travel Companions
The Twin Cities Race
Fugu for Two
Deducing Names
Richard Feynman is Inconsistent
Galbraith’s Cow
Logical Names for Babies
Being Relatively Ill-Named
Roman Resemblance Humour
The Prison-House of Language
Bilingual Humour
The Pierre Puzzle and Implicit Racism
Capital Pronunciation
Logically Perfect Language
Eyebrow Punctuation
Kierkegaard’s 1 AU Dash
Putting Out Your Second Eye
A Pyramid Schema
The Eighteenth Camel
The Negation Test for Nonsense
Shifty O’s
A Plenum of Palindromes for Lewis Carroll
Pining for the Impossible
Anything Is Possible?
Half Full or Half Empty?
The Scientific Drinker
Is Akrasia Crazy?
A Cure for Incontinence!
Lewis Carroll’s Pig Puzzles
A Round Trip from Small to Large
Partway Down the Slippery Slope
Contrapositive Thinking
Queer Quantities
New Zealand’s Arthur Prior
Most Remote Capital City
The Logic of ‘Australia’
Predicting Your Predictor
The Freedom of a Coin Toss
Fair Tosses from an Unfair Coin
Predicting Random Choices
Wittgenstein on Ice
The Unbearable Lightness of Logical Conclusions
Impossible Crimes
Double Belief
The Evil of Doing the Impossible
Identity Theft
Infinite Chess
Infinite Two-Minute Debate
Indian Debate Tournament
Winning by Losing
Minimising Selfishness
Lawrence of Arabia Collars a Leopard
A Bridge without Pillars
Advice from Shih Teng
Thales’ Shady Measurement of Pyramids
The Cowpox Transmission Problem
Kant’s Gloves
An Antipodal Algorithm
The Invisibility of Function Words
Necessary Waste
The Art of the Counterexample
The Philosophy of Scale Effects
Humble Exercise
Philosophy for the Eye
Synthetic A Priori Lies
Passive A Priori Deception
Crete Revisited
Less Lucky the Second Time?
Professor Ignorance
Nothing Is Written in Stone
Self-Fulfilling, Self-Defeating Prophecies
The Philosopher’s Petition
Napoleon’s Meta-Discovery
Handicaps on Deduction
Logical Insults
Logical Humility
Blasphemous Tautologies
Generality Jokes and Consistency Proofs
To Be and Not to Be
Lobster Logic
The Triple Contract
Voltaire’s Big Bet
Biblical Counting
Russell’s Slip of the Pen
The First Female Philosopher?
Is a Burrito a Sandwich?
Second Place
The Drachma’s Defect
Illogical Coin Collecting
The Centime and the Bottle Imp
A Meeting of Minds
Deadliest Gettier Case
Premature Explanatory Satiation
Upside-Down Charity
Does Charity Apply to Group Beliefs?
The Population of Lake Wobegon
Following the Argument
The Earliest Unexpected Class Inspection
A Foolproof Guessing Game
Predicting Your Death Date
The Oldest Mosque
The Referee’s Dilemma
The Worst Pair of Referee Reports
A Terrible Tautology?
Quantifier Mottos
The Chinese Music Box
Christmas Eve364
Putting Parody into Practice
Hoax Proof
Penny Wise
Plato’s Punning Riddle
Chess Puzzle Puzzle
The Spy’s Riddle
Why One is the Loneliest Number
The Moment of Truth
Preventing Prevarication
Argument and Oscar Wilde’s ‘The Decay of Lying’
Ethics of Supposition
Behaviourism for Eggs
The Egg Came Before the Chicken
The Egg Came Before the Ellipse
Martin Gardner’s Touching Problem
Indiscernible Harm
Book Review of A Million Random Digits
An Unjust but Fair Obituary
Reflective Truth Tables
The Bikini Palindrome
Family Resemblance for Primates
Minimal Resemblance
Brother-in-Law Resemblance
Tolstoy’s Syllogism
Woody Allen’s Death Wish
Checkmate in Aleph-Nought
A Memory Lapse
The Penultimate State
Fame as the Forgotten Philosopher: Meditations on the Headstone of Adam Ferguson
The Answers
Acknowledgements
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