Logical? Illogical?

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I just came across this case in my math lecture, which I wanna share with my fans:

During one of my ICTs, my platoon commander, who is a man of absolute integrity (ie, a man who can be trusted), inform us on Sunday that there will be a surprise night training that will take place in the coming week, ie Monday to Sunday and we will be informed on the noon of the day itself. He assured us that the operation will come unexpected.

But then, based on logic, the operation will not happen at all. This is because:

i) if the operation doesn't happen from Monday to Saturday, then it will mean that it will happen on Sunday. But assuming this situation, it will mean that the operation will be expected after Saturday afternoon, before the announcement on Sunday afternoon, since there is no announcement from Monday to Saturday regarding the operation. Therefore, the operation can only happen from Monday to Saturday.

ii) but if the operation then again doesn't happen fom Monday to Friday, then the same logical deduction can be made. By applying the same logical deduction for Monday to Sunday, logically, we can say that the operation is expected and therefore, there is no way that it will happen.

But... on Wednesday afternoon, it was announced that there will be a night training on that day... wah lao, what a stunner... but then... logically it should not happen mah.

Now, there are people (including me) who argue since we are expecting that the operation will not happen, based on the logical deduction we came out with, then the prospect of the operation happening will become an unexpected scenario. As such, since we won't expect that the operation will take place in the beginning, the fact that it did is unexpected to us.

But think again, where is the fallacy in logic? In logic, the fallacy comes with the definition of the word 'expected'. What does it mean by 'expected'? I won't want to go into that topic since that is OPP, ie other people's problem.

So, logical? Illogical? To me, the army always work 'by left' not 'by right', so...

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