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lisper12/09/20240 repliesview on HN

Well, let's see...

NOT(FORALL(x): my-hat(x) -> green(x))

EXISTS(x): NOT(my-hat(x) -> green(x)) ; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_quantification#Negat...

EXISTS(x): NOT(NOT(my-hat(x)) OR green(x)) ; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Material_implication_(rule_of_...

EXISTS(x): NOT(NOT(my-hat(x)) AND NOT(green(x)) ; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Morgan%27s_laws

EXISTS(x): my-hat(x) AND NOT(green(x)) ; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_negation#Elimination_an... (note that this assumes non-intuitionistic logic)

EXISTS(x): my-hat(x) ; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conjunction_elimination

So yeah, the liar must have at least one (non-green) hat.