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Who Owns The Fish?
by PROFESSOR ALBERT EINSTEIN
Derivation by A.S.
JOSEPH, MS BA/BA
~ Dr. Albert Einstein ~
Nobel Laureate (1921);
Time Magazine's Man of the Century
Accolades too numerous to
mention
b. 14 Mar.
1879_d. 18
Apr. 1955
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GIVEN: Five
houses in a row. Each is a different color, and each is occupied by a
person from a different country. They each drink different drinks,
they each smoke different brands, and they each keep different pets.
No two people are from the same country, no two drink the same drink,
no two smoke the same brand, or keep the same pet. Each house is a
different color and has exactly one person living in it.
With respect to the aforementioned, and using the following 15
inferences, prove who owns the fish:
1. The British man lives in a red
house.
2. The Swede keeps dogs as pets.
3. The Dane drinks tea.
4. The green house is on the left of the white
house.
5. The green house owner drinks
coffee.
6. The person who smokes Pall Mall rears
birds.
7. The owner of the yellow house smokes
Dunhill.
8. The
man living in the house right in the center drinks
milk.
9. The Norwegian lives in the first
house.
10. The man who smokes Blend lives next to the
one who keeps cats.
11. The man who keeps horses lives next to the
man who smokes Dunhill.
12. The owner who smokes Blue Master drinks
beer.
13. The German smokes Prince.
14. The Norwegian lives next to the blue
house.
15. The man who smokes Blend has a neighbor who
drinks water.
The good Professor Einstein exclaimed 98% of us are utterly
incapable of solving so simple a problem. That was all I needed to
hear...
Be my guest. Go ahead. Pull down the tabs; knock yourself out:
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Don't feel bad... Difficult for human beings to derive such a
solution, confined to the constraint of 5-by-5 matrix, for which to
map the arrays. We aren't wired this way. Scroll down the page... see
how I've derived the solution. The derivation, in and of itself is
most intriguing, with a rich active reading to be revealed, but only
for those who think (1) outside-the-box, (2)
inside-the-box, and (3) those who think
spatially. Einstein's level of intellect, we must
function on all three levels simultaneously, as did he, as we
graduate up the decision tree. The further up the decision tree we
advance, the more difficult it becomes to resist falling backward,
"into the box."
This is going to be an adventure! Scroll down the page, watch me
mop this up:
Solution
Derivation by A.S. JOSEPH, MS BA/BA
"Imagination is more
important than knowledge"
~ Professor Albert Einstein, On Science ~
S t r a t e g y -
i._Parameters
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A priori, the number of parameters we must
contend with is exacted by tallying the number of unique nouns, from
the inferences, above. Sorting the parameters from the variables, the
parameters are established, arbitrarily ordered
Red-Green-White-Blue-Yellow, as follows, in the matrix, below:
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ii._Variables -
A posteriori, we begin with an empty 5 by 4
matrix; there will be 5 -- four parameter -- vertically arranged
arrays, where each table of arrays will become indicative of a
particular outcome. Let's employ a passive, dependent, "Simon
says..." game theory strategy, to disseminate the solution. Let's
proceed, selectively, down the list, above, plucking each central
inference, or clue, in such a manner as to exert minimal geometric
effort in order to efficiently map the arrays which will
syllogistically unfold before us, that which spatially defines
who owns the fish
as a function of the contradictions
we encounter. In other words, we simply apply diligence in mapping
each possible outcome, whilst allowing each contradiction to
extirpate the irrelevant arrays. Child's play! This is going to be
fun!
Let's begin...
P r o o f ~
1. "The British man lives in a red
house."
Plug and chug...
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4. "The green house is on the left of the white
house."
Ambiguity: Unclear as to whether or not the two variables are directly
adjacent. Therefore, we must assume three possible outcomes at this
early juncture:
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9. "The Norwegian lives in the first
house."
Signal Ambiguity:
... no definition, what constitutes the
first house, this complicates things. Knowing when to think,
in-the-box, and out-of-the-box, is an art. Not a science. This is not
the time to think, out-of-the-box, bury our head in the sand, making
an asinine assumption that, for no good reason than the fact we read
from left to right, that the first house is axiomatically extreme
left. This is the time to think spatially. We can't assume
anything, unless given a definition. We can't establish a valid
definition, sans a valid converse argument. We don't have a
definition, for which to correlate left and right, ordinally (e.g.,
to first and last). To wit, we must assume two more possible
outcomes, multiplied to the previous three. Henceforth, our task
becomes increasingly arduous:
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14. "The Norwegian lives next to the blue
house."
Plug 'n chug another variable, and the various
arrays begin to take shape...
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5. "The green house owner drinks coffee."
Plug and chug... We can see, thus far, that
this is not fundamentally difficult; it's just involved. Ideally,
before the diffusion and proliferation of personal computers, the
best way to solve this problem was with a stack of 3 by 5 cards
whereupon, whensoever each contradiction is encountered, you'd put a
big red X across it, and throw it away... keep doing that until
there's just one left.
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7. "The owner of the yellow house smokes
Dunhill"
By definition, the Norwegian must live in the
Yellow House, and he smokes Dunhill. Last dependent parameter is now
placed (yellow house), yet one independent parameter is still
outstanding:
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8. "The man living in the house right in the center
drinks milk"
By definition, the green house cannot occupy
center position (e.g., all outcomes with the green house in central
position are purged from this excercise). Contradictions atrit two
previous possibilities, leaving four possible outcomes yet
remaining:
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11. "The man who keeps horses lives next to the man
who smokes Dunhill"
Our five by four table emerges, all parameters
have materialized, we have 6 variables placed, 14 variables still
outstanding, we have four possible outcomes as we traverse the
midpoint juncture:
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3. "The Dane drinks tea."
Two more possible outcomes now emerge... our
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13. "The German smokes Prince."
Notice something peculiar about what's
happening? Denote: This isn't inherently complex. Extraordinary
intelligence quotient isn't prerequisite. All Professor Einstein
demands of us, is that we be systematic, and assert discipline. That
it begins to get a little hairy, about now, as several more possible
outcomes emerge, this is where everybody quits. Assertion that 98% of
us cannot solve this simple conundrum, Professor Einstein isn't
implying we lack for intelligence. Quite to the contrary, he's merely
asserting 98% of us, under constraint of intermediate to overwhelming
threshold challenge, lack for discipline necessary to be systematic,
objective, and circumspect. Professor Einstein asserts, here, between
the lines, that we don't have to be smart, to be good at math. To
wit, reason we're so lousy at math, is on account we're lazy; we lack
for intellectual stamina. When systematically burdened, we waffle.
So, let's not let that happen to us. Let's not disapoint him. Okay?
Man upstairs gave us a brain. Let's not merely use it. By all means,
much as we would, a great handling vehicle, through God's green
canyons, let's put the hammer down, no prisoners, and continue on,
with great style!
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Only two contradictions emerge, and are thus
purged... a wealth of possible outcomes still remain. But, let's
stick with it... see what lies ahead:
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beer."
Contradictions atrit all but six remaining
possibilities, below, and our task, now, will become ever simpler, as
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10. "The man who smokes Blend lives next to the one
who keeps cats."
We now have enough information to solve this
equation. There are two possible solutions. Nonetheless, vis-a-via
transitive preference logic, the fish is attributed to the German, in
either instance, who lives in the green house. Denote Einstein's
efficiency: He does not provide enough information to pinpoint a
singular outcome. Rather, he provides only enough information to
solve the equation. Begs the question: Who is the Brit's "closest"
neighbor, the German, sobering up with a cup of coffee? Or, is it the
inebriated Swede? Arguably, in addition to scrambling them up, a
sixteenth central inference (clue) was likely stricken by a clever,
wiley Dr. Einstein, to leave us pondering a wry, clever
irony.
Einstein struck a 16th inference...
Rich active reading, Carefully examine the two
outcomes, below: Relative to the British, both Norwegians and Danes
are a reflection; Swedes and Germans a translation...Sweden, the only
country designated an alcoholic beverage, didn't lift a finger
throughout the course of WWII to help a beleagured Great Britian,
buckling under the weight of National Socialist Germany's V-2s. What
constitutes basis for mutual frienship between nation states? Cold
neutrality of a cowardly, utterly indifferent neighbor, one who never
did anything to harm you, or a reconciled defeated foe that once so
profoundly did? Point taken. Nonetheless, to proceed any further is
extraneous. That the spatial contradiction below is coincidently
omnipresent, and significant, particularly in the post WWII
vernacular, must be what Einstein intended for us to reveal.
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15. "The man who smokes Blend has a neighbor who
drinks water."
After all that work, Dr. Einstein left us
hanging, with a spatial contradiction to dwell upon. Two viable
outcomes, reflection and translation laden, simultaneously. Denote
the symmetry: Dr. Einstein leaves our arrays impeccably ordered, but
our parameters in disarray! We do not know which outcome is
correct... we never will. Perhaps Dr. Einstein left this for the
United Kingdom, the only stationary parameter, smoking American
cigarettes, suckling off it's mother's milk, to decide. Nonetheless,
I don't necessarily believe this exercise should call forth
reevaluation of the good Professor Einstein, if not but to answer the
burning question as to whether or not he was smarter than we think he
was. At the very least, this is compelling proof he certainly was no
less. Two solutions notwithstanding, reflection and translation
omnipresent, either instance, it's the German who owns the
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Tea
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Milk
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Coffee
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Beer
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Smoke:
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Dunhill
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Blend
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Pall Mall
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Prince
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Blue Master
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Pet:
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Cat
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Horse
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Birds
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Fish
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Dogs
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Quote Erot Demonstrata -
- A.S. Joseph
Closing Thought
-
- It is not really difficult to construct a
series of inferences, each
- dependent upon its predecesor and each
simple in itself.
-
- If, after doing so,
- one simply knocks out the central
inferences and presents one's
- audience with a startling point and
conclusion, one can produce
- a startling... effect. - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle,
Adventures of the Dancing Men
~ Thank you, Professor Einstein... we miss you.
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