Path: news.net.uni-c.dk!newsfeeds.net.uni-c.dk!news1.ebone.net!news.ebone.net!diablo.netcom.net.uk!netcom.net.uk!newsfeed.online.be!news-raspail.gip.net!news.gsl.net!gip.net!news1.spb.su!news.ptc.spbu.ru!not-for-mail From: "m_l_g3@my-deja.com" Newsgroups: comp.ai.neural-nets,comp.lang.apl,comp.lang.awk,comp.lang.basic,comp.lang.beta,comp.lang.cobol,comp.lang.dylan,comp.lang.forth Subject: Re: Einstein's Riddle Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2001 12:48:02 +0300 Organization: 3 ?A-ERROR ( ADDR OUT OF DIAPAZON) Lines: 21 Message-ID: <3AADECD2.D78C9CDA@my-deja.com> References: <110320011440274719%droleary@subsume.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: mg.dorms.spbu.ru Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: news.spbu.ru 984476827 42506 195.19.253.149 (13 Mar 2001 09:47:07 GMT) X-Complaints-To: staff@ptc.spbu.ru NNTP-Posting-Date: 13 Mar 2001 09:47:07 GMT X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (WinNT; U) X-Accept-Language: en Xref: news.net.uni-c.dk comp.ai.neural-nets:67541 comp.lang.apl:29375 comp.lang.awk:17120 comp.lang.beta:12744 comp.lang.cobol:102548 comp.lang.dylan:24163 comp.lang.forth:78525 Doc O'Leary wrote: > > Question: Who owns the fish? > > Answer: Houses are property, and thus owned by the men, but no man has > the right of ownership over another animal. Among them (the guys from the riddle), only one has the right to take the fish with him to the city, or make money using it, or sell it, of eat it fried. If other guys do that without a legal reason, this would be a crime. So that guy owns the fist. And you are playing words. BTW, in Russian the question would sound as "u kogo ryba?" (lit. "with whom fish?") where the verb is implied. A translation underlining legal issues would be inadequate in the context of a puzzle. > Note that the language of the puzzle never used ownership in referring > to pets, only in the final question.