DanielLC comments on The Parable of the Dagger - Less Wrong

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Comment author: DanielLC 05 January 2012 06:17:09AM 2 points [-]

The only necessary assumptions are that the King isn't lying, and that he isn't mistaken. Once you know this, you can deduce that there is one key and one dagger.

The jester made an additional, incorrect, assumption that everything on the first box was either "true" or "false".