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>From: christo@psych.toronto.edu (Christopher Green)
Subject: Re: An Unanswerable Question
Message-ID: <1991Oct31.175646.11179@psych.toronto.edu>
Organization: Department of Psychology, University of Toronto
References: <1991Oct10.041721.2921@newsroom.utas.edu.au> <410@itexjct.UUCP> <4834@uqcspe.cs.uq.oz.au>
Date: Thu, 31 Oct 1991 17:56:46 GMT

In article <4834@uqcspe.cs.uq.oz.au> paulh@cs.uq.oz.au writes:
>In <410@itexjct.UUCP> itexjct!warren%itexjct@vms.huji.ac.il writes:
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>>Edgar.Sleinis@phil.utas.edu.au writes:
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>>>Is NO the correct answer to this question?
>
>>Douglas R. Hofstadter was asked this at Columbia University when
>>he came to give a lecture.  He answered, "Mu".
>
>"Mu" is a word coined by Edward deBono (see e.g. "I'm Right You're Wrong")
>which is used to answer questions that can't simply be answered yes or no.

That's funny. I thought it was a letter of the Greek alphabet first. :-)

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Christopher D. Green                christo@psych.toronto.edu
Psychology Department               cgreen@lake.scar.utoronto.ca
University of Toronto
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