Re: S, B, and a puzzle by Boolos, Smullyan, McCarthy

2004-10-12 Thread Jesse Mazer
Nice work, Eric! Your solution looks right to me. I now realize my mistake, I was thinking that if the gods are in a particular order (say, TRF) and Ja has a particular meaning (say, Ja=yes) and you get a particular series of answers (say, JJJ) then if you reverse the meaning of Ja and ask the s

Re: S, B, and a puzzle by Boolos, Smullyan, McCarthy

2004-10-12 Thread Eric Cavalcanti
On Mon, 2004-10-11 at 22:51, Bruno Marchal wrote: > As a Price, I give you the (known?) Smullyan McCarthy As a Price, or a Prize? :) > puzzle. You are in front of three Gods: the God of Knights, the > God of Knaves, and the God of Knives. The God of Knight always > tells the truth. The God of Kn

Re: Ambjørn et al.

2004-10-12 Thread Saibal Mitra
Download the article free of charge here: http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0404156 - Oorspronkelijk bericht - Van: "Pete Carlton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Aan: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Verzonden: Tuesday, October 12, 2004 07:09 PM Onderwerp: Ambjørn et al. > Of possible general interest - > > J. Ambj

Re: S, B, and a puzzle by Boolos, Smullyan, McCarthy

2004-10-12 Thread Jesse Mazer
Bruno Marchal wrote: You made a relevant decomposition of the problem, and you are on the right track. Actually I'm not sure the "ja" "da" McCarthy's amelioration adds anything deep to the problem. It will be enough to take into account that a double negation gives an affirmation. I've thought abou

Ambjørn et al.

2004-10-12 Thread Pete Carlton
Of possible general interest - J. Ambjørn J. Jurkiewicz and R. Loll (also a writeup in Nature news, at http://www.nature.com/news/2004/041004/full/041004-17.html) "Emergence of a 4D World from Causal Quantum Gravity" http://dx.doi.org/10.1103%2FPhysRevLett.93.131301

Re: S, B, and a puzzle by Boolos, Smullyan, McCarthy

2004-10-12 Thread Bruno Marchal
You made a relevant decomposition of the problem, and you are on the right track. Actually I'm not sure the "ja" "da" McCarthy's amelioration adds anything deep to the problem. It will be enough to take into account that a double negation gives an affirmation. Bruno At 16:55 11/10/04 -0400, Jesse

probability in ensemble theories

2004-10-12 Thread Stathis Papaioannou
[I am starting a new thread on this question because I feel I may have confused matters with increasingly elaborate thought experiments in my posts to Eric Cavalcanti's thread on observation selection effects.] The occurence of events which at first glance seem to be very unlikely should not n