Respond then to my post about her getting to wake up on Tuesday.Heads as well. It spells that out. All four of those things were equal probability. If...
OK, I didn't know that's what that was. I'm actually not much up on the notation of it all, so I have a helluva time following it. In the linked page,...
Perhaps quote the axiom in question. I suspect it applies to something not known, such as a coin toss that has not yet been made, or which has been pu...
'will happen' implies the coin has not yet been tossed. It has, and today has happened, which yields information that changes the credence. That chang...
Suppose we change the game slightly. Beauty wakes up each day, regardless of the coin toss. But if it Tuesday and Heads, we tell her it is Tuesday and...
There are three awakenings (A, B, D), each with equal 50% probability of eventual occurrence. In that sense, each awakening has an objective 50% proba...
She gets one betThis is a different scenario. When do I find out that I get a second guess? You would have to either tell me before the first guess, o...
This is not the situation faced by Beauty. She is offered one bet that wins or loses one ticket. There is no double payout during any of here wakings....
You say it is 50% odds, but tails is the better bet. This seems contradictory to me. The whole point of my answer was which was the better bet. If the...
And in what way is that not happening twice to her? She gets to bet twice in that case, despite the fact that she is unaware of which times she's bett...
Ouch... Does miss Beauty know that she's getting fewer points on some of the bets. In that case the outcome is certain and she can win every bet. If n...
I noticed a discrepancy. The description of the problem does not make it clear that sleeping beauty knows the procedure. If she doesn't, then she has ...
Another simple way to compute this, objective, but without knowledge: There are four equal probabiltiy states (each equally has 50% chance of being vi...
Slow reply, I know. Been away. Information about the toss can very much change that. If she is able to actually see the result of the toss, the odds b...
Yes, the Monday awakening is twice as likely as the Tuesday one. It doubles the weight of that awakening. So it adds up to 33% since there is a 50/50 ...
I hate to say there is no conundrum about this one. I've not read most of the posts past this point in the thread. Jeremiah's answer here seems correc...
Well as I said, I think I am the wrong person to give answers to questions about a view that I do not hold. When does combustion start to exist as a s...
Yes, that's the second guy I'm referring to. I say it doesn't exist. There is nothing that could have been somebody else until being born in this spec...
Fine. I have never heard of anybody that was somebody else. Why am I me? Well, who else could I be? More your wording: 'Inhabit'. OK, I see the path y...
The question already has biases built in, so you're on your own answering it. I struggled for quite some time figuring out this one until I identified...
Fair enough. The relevant definition of paradox that pops up says this: The funny cone seems to fall under definition 'a' since it seems opposed to co...
This assertion is exactly that: just an assertion, and a false one at that. There is no mathematical basis for this. The paradox apparently comes from...
A paradox is usually of the form of "If A is true, then A can be shown to be false". Your original 25 25 50 60 thingy would have been paradoxical had ...
In what way is this in need of 'resolution'? You haven't stated a problem with this scenario. Is there some law somewhere being broken, like infinite ...
A simple example to the contrary suffices in proving wrong an assertion that all A is B, or in this case, the only valid interpretation (A) is one of ...
Not so. You just refuse to slice it the way some others are. This misunderstanding comes from an imprecisely wording of the problem, and you're assumi...
???? You're wrong no matter what you choose. There is thus zero percent chance of choosing correctly, which is what the question asks. That the thing ...
Of course it is circular. Perhaps there is a paradox that is not, but I cannot think of one offhand. The question concerns the answer to the question....
Heh Thought of a variation of the original one: If you choose an answer to this question at random, what is the chance you will be correct? A) 25% B) ...
But there is. It asks about the odds of guessing correctly. I agree, and the consistency of this makes it not a paradox. Choice C should probably have...
Non-relational use of 'existence', so no . We can converse partly because of our existence in relation to each other. That is not a sufficient conditi...
The law simply says "in the same way". Time is simply one of the ways that might not be the same. It is daytime, and it is not daytime can both be tru...
Ah yes, so I did. And we're not using the word to mean physical objects. I admit that the word has connotations of being a member of something bigger....
Not a physical object. I didn't use the word. It is a mathematical structure, one that can be referenced but not really instantiated. Again, I'm not t...
That is exactly what 'existential quantification' means. It is not an assertion of the realism of the thing in question. But in the relational view, p...
Not following this. Are you talking about temporal existence? For that, the conversation requires sufficient proximity and simultaneous overlap of exi...
Going to need more time with this one. I think the question is important, but most of Platonic views are ones of realism, not relativism. Nothing exis...
Not talking about a square in my mind. Talking about any square, the mathematical form itself, and not merely the concept of it, which would require a...
We are having this conversation since we stand in relation to each other, through this forum as well as other means. That is what ontology is in the r...
It not worded that way in the relational view, and I've never seen in worded that way anywhere. It seems weak, since there are no actual squares (sinc...
I just quoted what I just posted above. I am not being careful with my wording. I say the moon exists, but formally I say it exists only in relation t...
I am going to fall back to my square again. I seem to be on my own. The view must be faulty if nobody seems to grasp what I'm trying to describe. The ...
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