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86Self-reference and the acyclicity of rational choiceAnnals of Pure and Applied Logic 96 (1-3): 117-140. 1999.Self-reference in semantics, which leads to well-known paradoxes, is a thoroughly researched subject. The phenomenon can appear also in decision theoretic situations. There is a structural analogy between the two and, more interestingly, an analogy between principles concerning truth and those concerning rationality. The former can serve as a guide for clarifying the latter. Both the analogies and the disanalogies are illuminating.
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1Operational pointer semantics: Solution to self-referential puzzles IIn M. Y. Vardi (ed.), Proceedings of the Second Conference on Theoretical Aspects of Reasoning About Knowledge, Morgan Kaufman. 1988.
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82Contextual logic with modalities for time and spaceReview of Symbolic Logic 1 (4): 433-458. 2008.Contextuality is trivially pervasive: all human experience takes place in endlessly changing environments and inexorably moving time frames. In order to have any meaning, the changing items must be placed within a more stable setting, a framework that is not subject to the same kind of contextual change. Total contextuality collapses into chaos, or becomes ineffable. While basic learning is highly contextual (one learns by example), what is learned transcends the examples used in the learning. P…Read more
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39The sure thing principle, dilations, and objective probabilitiesJournal of Applied Logic 11 (4): 373-385. 2013.
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187Pointers to truthJournal of Philosophy 89 (5): 223-261. 1992.If we try to evaluate the sentence on line 1 we ¯nd ourselves going in an unending cycle. For this reason alone we may conclude that the sentence is not true. Moreover we are driven to this conclusion by an elementary argument: If the sentence is true then what it asserts is true, but what it asserts is that the sentence on line 1 is not true. Consequently the sentence on line 1 is not true. But when we write this true conclusion on line 2 we ¯nd ourselves repeating the very same sentence. It se…Read more
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