Get Smart (film)/Funny

Maxwell Smart infiltrates the enemy base and is confronted by the Big Bad's henchmen.

Siegfried: How do we know you're not CONTROL?
Maxwell: If I were CONTROL, you'd already be dead.
Siegfried: If you were CONTROL, you'd already be dead.
Maxwell: Well, neither of us are dead, so obviously I'm not from CONTROL, am I?
(Beat.)
Shtarker: That actually makes sense...

- It does; Let proposition A represent Max is CONTROL, B represent Siegfried is dead, and C represent Max is dead. The propositions A implies B, and A implies C, may be accepted as true; since neither B nor C are true, A cannot be true. The logic is sound, even if the assumptions aren't.

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