Owutatangledweb
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I'm sorry, but it's simple logic. The sheriff said 5 people are not all telling the same story, and there are 2 or 3 stories, and 2 people are telling different stories.
Four of the five are telling stories that conflict with the story told by the fifth person, That person's story, in turn, conflicts with the other four. That's five people all telling a story that conflicts with at least one other person. That, by definition, would be five persons telling conflicting stories.
But, the sheriff says that there are 2 or 3 stories, and 2 people who conflict with each other. If there are three stories total, that would mean that 3 people are telling the same story, 1 is telling another story, and 1 is telling yet another story. Everyone would be conflicting with at least two other people. By definition, that would also be five people telling conflicting stories. IMO
OMG, you took me back 38 years to college logic classes. Lol.