Pickup at the right end of the bell curve looks like this:
“If I were to ask you out, would your answer to that question be the same as the answer to this one?”
(Disclaimer: I didn’t make it up. I saw it somewhere else on this site, long time ago.)
looks silly to me. ;)
Smullyan invented this “coercive logic” in “The Riddle of Scheherazade”.
Pretty sure this is much, much older than that.
And you know you’ve got a winner when the pickup-ee grins and answers with no hesitation, “Maybe.”
Pickup at the right end of the bell curve looks like this:
“If I were to ask you out, would your answer to that question be the same as the answer to this one?”
(Disclaimer: I didn’t make it up. I saw it somewhere else on this site, long time ago.)
looks silly to me. ;)
Smullyan invented this “coercive logic” in “The Riddle of Scheherazade”.
Pretty sure this is much, much older than that.
And you know you’ve got a winner when the pickup-ee grins and answers with no hesitation, “Maybe.”