Originally posted by debbiejo
God, I hate these puzzles....
Congratulations to Atlantis001, Creshosk and WindDancer.
Einstein' s Puzzle
There are exactly 5 houses on the street, in a line running from left to right. Each house is a different colour, and each has exactly one owner.
The 5 owners each drink a certain drink, each smoke a certain brand of cigarette, and each have a certain pet.
[list][*] No owner drinks the same drink as any other.
[*] No owner smokes the same brand of cigarettes as any other.
[*] No owner has the same pet as any other.[/list]
The following statements are true:
[list] 1. The British man lives in the red house.
2. The Swedish man has a dog for a pet.
3. The Danish man drinks tea.
4. The green house is just to the left of the white house.
5. The owner of the green house drinks coffee.
6. The person that smokes Pall Mall has a bird.
7. The owner of the yellow house smokes Dunhill.
8. The person that lives in the middle house drinks milk.
9. The Norwegian lives in the first house (ie. the one on the far left).
10. The person that smokes Blend, lives next to the one that has a cat.
11. The person that has a horse lives next to the one that smokes Dunhill.
12. The one that smokes Bluemaster drinks beer.
13. The German smokes Prince.
14. The Norwegian lives next to a blue house.
15. The person that smokes Blend has a neighbor who drinks water.[/list]
Who has the fish?
Originally posted by StormI love these logic puzzles. 😄
Congratulations to Atlantis001, Creshosk and WindDancer.[b]Einstein' s Puzzle
There are exactly 5 houses on the street, in a line running from left to right. Each house is a different colour, and each has exactly one owner.
The 5 owners each drink a certain drink, each smoke a certain brand of cigarette, and each have a certain pet.
[list][*] No owner drinks the same drink as any other.
[*] No owner smokes the same brand of cigarettes as any other.
[*] No owner has the same pet as any other.[/list]
The following statements are true:
[list] 1. The British man lives in the red house.
2. The Swedish man has a dog for a pet.
3. The Danish man drinks tea.
4. The green house is just to the left of the white house.
5. The owner of the green house drinks coffee.
6. The person that smokes Pall Mall has a bird.
7. The owner of the yellow house smokes Dun-hill.
8. The person that lives in the middle house drinks milk.
9. The Norwegian lives in the first house (ie. the one on the far left).
10. The person that smokes Blend, lives next to the one that has a cat.
11. The person that has a horse lives next to the one that smokes Dun-hill.
12. The one that smokes Bluemaster drinks beer.
13. The German smokes Prince.
14. The Norwegian lives next to a blue house.
15. The person that smokes Blend has a neighbor who drinks water.[/list]
Who has the fish? [/B]
Nationality1Norwegian11Dane1111Brit111111German1111Swede
Color1111111Yellow11111Blue1111Red1111111Green11111White
Drink1111111Water111111Tea11111Milk111111Coffee1111Beer
Pet111111111Cats1111111Horses11Birds11111Fish11111Dogs
Cigar111111Dunhill11111Blends11Pall Mall1Prince1111Blue Master
The German has the fish.
Nightcrawlers are good at catching fish I guess. . .
Horizontal
2. Theory of knowledge.5. Buddhist unconditioned state of release from suffering.
6. Stoics said we should submit to this in order to have peace of mind.
8. Heidegger' s term for being in the world.
10. Greek god who represented light and reason, according to Nietzsche.12. Ockham' s ________ cut pretty well.14. Greek word for city.
15. Theory that all knowledge is based on data that we get through the senses.
16. Kant' s thing-in-itself.
17. Heraclitus' term for the divine voice of reason.
21. According to Hegel, what ideas have to go through in order to arrive at truth.
22. Deductive argument.
25. Branch of Buddhism that stresses immediacy without abstraction.26. Heidegger' s magnum opus was called Being and _________ .
27. Theory of ultimate reality.
30. Schopenhauer had his will-to-live, Nietzsche had his will-to-power, and William James had his will to ____________.
32. Plato said the philosopher should be a __________, since he knows how a city should be ordered.
33. By the _______, god of the Egyptians, Socrates was fond of saying.
34. Don' t make excuses, just follow Kant' s ________________ imperative.
37. For Kant, ___________________ a priori propositions will give us real knowledge.
39. Theory that there are two separate kinds of substances, such as body and mind.
40. Galileo' s _________________ theory of the heavens got him into trouble with the Catholic Church.41. Buddhist theory of no-self.
Vertical
1. Everything comes from this, according to Thales.
3. Like Hume, one who thinks we can' t know reality.
4. Leibniz' s windowless _________.
7. One of Aristotle' s four causes.9. Socrates' defense speech.
11. Units of pleasure for Bentham.
13. View that there is no truth beyond what an individual or society regards as true.14. What the Cyrenaics considered to be the most important thing.
18. What Marx says workers experience.19. All things are made of these, according to Democritus.
20. Theory of interpretation for Gadamer and others.
23. I can' t conceive of anything greater, so God exists. This is an ________________ argument for the existence of God.
24. Confucius' Sayings.26. Study of ends or purposes.28. According to Kierkegaard, truth is ______________________.
29. Type of intuition that Husserl thought we could have.
31. Word that seems for John Dewey to include almost everything.
35. According to Descartes, we' re born with certain ideas so they must be ________.36. Thales was said to have fallen into one of these while he was looking at the sky.
38. The female side of things in Taoism.
On a philosophical note, I think paradoxes, especially visuo-spatio ones, arise from a person not seeing the thing for what it is - IOW mindfulness is absent. Meditation should help.
I always used to do the New York Herald Tribune Logic Puzzles, but they became so boring because once I got to know how to go about doing them, I finished the most advanced ones and nothing were left as a challenge. The point is that if you can think logically, you can do them - they should come up with creative puzzles....mmm...
2 across is spelt wrong (epistemology).
36 down should be 'well'.
Across-
8. dasein
10. Apollo
15. empiricism
16. noumenon
17. logos
21. dialectic
22. syllogism
27. metaphysics
30. believe
34. categorical
37. synthetic
39. dualism
40. geocentrical
Down-
3. sceptic
4. monads
7. form
11. hedons
13. relativism
18. alienation
20. hermeneutics
23. ontological
24. proverbs
35. innate
If no one mindeds me adding a puzzle in... I've been thinking about this for a day now... See what you make of it... (copied from another website)
This position was reached in a normal chess game:
BLACK
+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
| B |////| K |/R/| N | ///| | ///|
+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
|/P/ | P | ///| | ///| | ///| |
+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
| |/// | Q |/K/| |/R/| | ///|
+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
|/// | |/// | |/// | |/// | |
+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
|/// | |/// | |/// | |/// | |
+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
|/// | |/// | |/// | |/// | |
+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
|/// | |/// | |/// | |/// | |
+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
|/// | |/// | |/// | |/// | |
+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
WHITE
a) Identify the color of each piece.
b) What was the last move?
Edit! ARG! dam it got messed up... Seems to delete the extra spaces...
http://perplexus.info/show.php?pid=3907
Thats the website for the puzzle...
Originally posted by Victor Von Doom
2 across is spelt wrong (epistemology).36 down should be 'well'.
Across-
8. dasein
10. Apollo
15. empiricism
16. noumenon
17. logos
21. dialectic
22. syllogism
27. metaphysics
30. believe
34. categorical
37. synthetic
39. dualism
40. geocentricalDown-
3. sceptic
4. monads
7. form
11. hedons
13. relativism
18. alienation
20. hermeneutics
23. ontological
24. proverbs
35. innate
I think 29 down is 'hyletic'.