Greetings.

(09-10-2013 07:14 PM)Paper Wrote:  

(09-10-2013 12:53 PM)Kaito Wrote:  Alright, Paper, talk to you soon.


A question for when you wake up, please try to answer it, if you cannot then I will provide the answer, it's quite simple, really...

How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?

Uhh, I had no idea what the answer is so I did a bit of research. I guessing it would chuck 700 pounds of wood?

Well, I don't know if that's right, but I looked into the sentence and broke it down into parts in order to obtain the answer.

Fist off- the whole sentence both asks us for an answer but at the same time implies that a woodchuck is uncapable of chopping wood.

To answer we should reply with an indefinite value, since there is no way to actually find out how much wood a woodchuck (that can't chuck) could chuck.


So we can say: A woodchuck would chuck as much wood as a woodchuck could chuck.

But a woodchuck CAN NOT chuck wood, so the only answer would be:

A woodchuck would chuck as much wood as a woodchuck could chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood.