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2) To mock a mocking bird and other logic puzzles: including an amazing adventure in combinatory logic
Author
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
1985.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
1982.
Language
English
Description
Most of this book is indeed in the form of a narrative, and a good alternative titlefor it would be "The Mystery of the Monte Carlo Lock," since the last half concerns a case which inspector Craig of Scotland Yard must discover a combination that will open the lock of a safe in Monte Carlo to prevent a disaster.
Author
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Bite-sized bits of thought-provoking philosophy are explored in this book of brainteasers. Philosopher-authors Casati and Varzi use playlets, short fiction and imagined correspondence to explore philosophical conundrums ranging from time travel to the sinister ways mirrors work. The prose tends toward the roundabout (Cause and Time are addressed--is it reasonable to build a machine to travel back into the Past, and, by traveling back into the Past,...
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