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Comment author: David_Gerard 23 November 2010 09:06:40PM 2 points [-]

I suddenly began to believe that matching colored gems was the process by which one constructed sound arguments.

Someone has to write this game.

Comment author: WrongBot 23 November 2010 09:36:32PM 1 point [-]

I'm imagining some kind of sliding-block puzzle game, with each block as a symbol or logical operator. You start off with some axioms and then have to go through and construct proofs for progressively more complex first-order logic expressions.

Or maybe a game that does for syllogisms what Manufactoria does for Turing Machines. (Memetic hazard warning!)

This could be promising...