It's impossible for a bird to be fixated on more than one bird. Show why.
This seems obviously true on its face: when a bird is fixated on another, it returns only that bird. Smullyan proves it by assuming that a bird A
is fixated on both x
and y
, then showing that x
and y
are equal.
Take a third bird z
. A(z) === x
, because A
is fixated on x
. But A(z) === y
, because A
is fixated on y
. Because both x
and y
are equal to A(z)
, they are equal to each other.