The inventor walked into the investors office, taking a deep breath before opening the door and approaching his desk.

“Sir, I would like to present my invention,” he said, leaning in and pausing-for effect. The businessman also leaned forward, watching in expectation. He suddenly shouted, “It is, a double sided spoon!” and unveiled a diagram, drawn simply in pen on-for no apparent reason, as it was not an exact diagram, only a quick scribble-graph paper, from his suit pocket, waving it in front of his face before placing it on the desk.

“It’s a what?” asked the investor, picking up the paper and looking at the diagram, which was only two pictures of ordinary spoons.

“A double sided spoon,” the inventor repeated.

“How can a spoon be double sided?”

“What do you mean how? It’s double sided.”

The businessman’s face was becoming red, “A spoon cannot be double sided! If one side is concave then the other has to be-”, he stopped trying to remember the word, “Convex! It’s simply not possible, I don’t see the point in it, and it’s completely absurd!”

“Sir please,” the inventor said, “Yes I admit it isn’t logical, but Sir, I ask you, as a businessman, which has been of greater value to you in your experience? The laws of physics, science, and logic by which the world function? Or the laws … of economics, by which society, and business function?”

“Oh yes of course, the laws of economics, of course. Obviously as a businessman. But I still don’t see how you can make such a thing!”

“Simply by using, what I like to call, ‘the logic of suspended logic’”

“The logic of what?”

“The logic of suspended logic. Logically the invention isn’t possible, according to the laws of logic, so, logically, the only solution is to simply suspend them. You may ask how it is possible, but as evidence that laws can be suspended (in this case, gravity) you only need to look at the airplane; It has no problem suspending, and it does it all the time.”

“Well, I don’t know about all that, but do you have one of these ‘double sided spoons?’”

The inventor frowned and replied that he had not yet completed a prototype. The businessman told him to come back when he had. So the inventor spent an entire week trying to create his double sided spoon; he talked with scientists, engineers, and even self proclaimed magicians, but none had an answer for him. Until finally he had an idea. If he could invent a double sided spoon using suspended logic, then he could create one using the same process!

He returned to the businessman the next day. “Sir, I have returned with a prototype, as you asked. This spoon will revolutionize kitchen utensils,” and he took a wooden spoon out of his pocket. It was a plain ordinary spoon. “I’ve created it with the same logic I invented it with-the law of suspended logic.”

The businessman picked up the spoon and sighed, “I think you should give up this whole ‘inventing’ business. Although I do believe you could have a very successful career, in politics.”