Even today, a silent willow warbler may easily be confused with a chiffchaff or wood warbler; a puzzle originally resolved by the Hampshire parson-naturalist Gilbert White, who first realised that the "willow-wrens" were indeed three different species, separable most easily by song.
Dreams, flashbacks and drug-induced hallucinations scramble the narrative, but gradually clues add up and all the puzzles are resolved.
But it seems to be an important puzzle to resolve.
In The Witness you can wander from section to section, trying out different kinds of puzzle and resolving to come back to ones that eluded you on a first attempt.
The initial attempts to define the sophist and statesman, using the method of dichotomous division, each reveal a puzzle about the target kind, and that puzzle is then resolved in some other way, or at least in conjunction with some other method.
But a piece of the puzzle could be resolved by the end of the week.
2012 is also the year in which a remaining major piece of the puzzle will be resolved: student funding.
The one that's a resolved puzzle: Jigsaw Falling Into Place, Radiohead Musically, this song is stock Radiohead: sharp, tiered riffs, moody chanting and a dazzling tune.
Convincing lawmakers to support pension privatisation that required issuing an extra $1 trillion-2 trillion of debt would be even harder.Just how the interest-rate puzzle will be resolved is unclear.
Part of the puzzle can be resolved by acknowledging that not all emotional responses (broadly construed) are cognitive (Robinson 1994 20055, 387 400).
