I am your father

Logic Level 3

Statement 1 : If Darth Vader is Padme's husband, then Padme has a son with Darth Vader, and if Padme has a son with Darth Vader, then Darth Vader is Luke's father.

Statement 2 : If Darth Vader is not Luke's father, then Padme doesn't have a son with Darth Vader, and if Padme doesn't have a son with Darth Vader, then Darth Vader is not Padme's husband.

If statement 1 is true, is statement 2 true as well?

Credit: Lucasfilm.
Not enough information Maybe No Yes

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2 solutions

Let the statements be denoted as followed:

p = Darth Vader is Padme's husband.

q = Padme has a son with Darth Vader.

r = Darth Vader is Luke's father.

Hence, we can rewrite statment 1 as: ( p q (p\to q ) ˄ ( q r (q\to r )

Then, the statement 2 can be rewritten as: ( r q ( -r\to -q ) ˄ ( q p ( -q\to -p )

Since ( q r (q\to r ) = ( r q ( -r\to -q ) and ( p q (p\to q ) = ( q p ( -q\to -p ), both statements are equivalent. Thus, if statement 1 is true, statement 2 is true as well.

Luke was an illegitimate child

Owen Radcliffe - 5 years, 6 months ago
Lu Chee Ket
Dec 8, 2015

If they are husband and wife, then they must have one son called Luke;

Since Luke is not a son of the man, husband and wife cannot be valid.

"No" cannot be correct as valid possibility of true is completely denied;

"Maybe" AND "Not enough information" are the same and therefore contradict to each other once they can be true as answer to this question when not the father of Luke means not of at least from the man's contribution to building blocks of DNA of Luke.

"Yes" becomes certain when "Maybe" and "Not enough information" cannot be different implications and then contradict the answer; as it is an only possible answer remained which does not contradict while it is the major possibility meant to usual case.

Answer: Y e s \boxed{Yes}

David's generation means a recognition of son to a husband and a wife. Son of man hinted that all of whom up to the date are only within Complex Numbers.

Lu Chee Ket - 5 years, 6 months ago

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