results in the answer "ja" if the truthful answer to Q is "yes", and the answer "da" if the truthful answer to Q is "no" (Rabern and Rabern (2008) call this result the embedded question lemma). The reason this works can be seen by studying the logical form of the expected answer to the question. This logical form (Boolean expression) is developed below ('"Q'" is true if the answer to Q is 'yes', '"God'" is true if the god to whom the question is asked is acting as a truth-teller and "'Ja'" is true if the meaning of "Ja" is 'yes'):