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Unboxing the Concepts in Newcomb’s Paradox:Causation,Prediction,Decision in Causal Knowledge Patterns
evidential vs causal decision theory Newcomb’s paradox Bayes nets causal models interventionist account of causation
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2016/6/15
In Nozick’s rendition of the decision situation given in Newcomb’s Paradox dominance and the principle of maximum expected utility recommend different strategies. While evidential decision theory (EDT...
The Knowability Paradox in the light of a Logic for Pragmatics
knowability logic for pragmatics antirealism undecidedness
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2016/6/12
The Knowability Paradox is a logical argument showing that if all truths are knowable in principle, then all truths are, in fact, known. Many strategies have been suggested in order to avoid the parad...
Testing a precise null hypothesis:the case of Lindley's Paradox
statistical inference hypothesis testing Lindley's paradox reference Bayesianism frequentism
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2016/5/31
The interpretation of tests of a point null hypothesis against an unspecified alternative is a classical and yet unresolved issue in statistical methodology. This paper approaches the problem from the...
Defusing Bertrand's Paradox
Bertrand's Paradox Principle of Indifference interpretation of probability Haar measure
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2016/5/30
The classical interpretation of probability together with the Principle of Indifference are formulated in terms of probability measure spaces in which the probability is given by the Haar measure. A n...
What is the “Paradox of Phase Transitions?”
phase transitions scientific representation,emergence reduction thermodynamics statistical mechanics
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2016/5/30
I present a novel approach to the recent scholarly debate that has arisen with respect to the philosophical import one should infer from scientific accounts of “Phase Transitions,” by appealing to a d...
The Paradox of Sexual Reproduction and the Levels of Selection:Can Sociobiology Shed a Light?
Evolutionary maintenance of sexual reproduction group selection inclusive fitness kin selection multilevel selection sociobiology
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2016/5/30
The rejection of group selection in the 1960s left the evolutionary maintenance of sex bereft of its previous explanations and turned it into an anomaly or paradox. While the levels of selection debat...
Photons uncertainty removes Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen paradox
Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen paradox locality
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2008/4/22
Einstein, Podolsky and Rosen (EPR) argued that the
quantum-mechanical probabilistic description of physical reality
had to be incomplete, in order to avoid an instantaneous action
between distant m...
Reconciling Spacetime and the Quantum: Relational Blockworld and the Quantum Liar Paradox
blockworld non-relativistic quantum mechanics entanglement
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2008/4/22
The Relational Blockworld (RBW) interpretation of non-relativistic quantum mechanics(NRQM) is introduced. Accordingly, the spacetime of NRQM is a relational, nonseparableblockworld whereby spatial dis...
The double-slit experiment: A paradox-free kinematic description
double-slit experiment EPR experiment measurement problem
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2008/4/21
The paradoxes of the double-slit experiment with an electron are shown to originate in the implicit assumption that the electron is always located in the classical space. It is demonstrated that there...
The EPR experiment: A paradox-free definition of reality
EPR experiment measurement problem
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2008/4/21
The paradoxes of the EPR experiment with two particles are shown to originate in the implicit assumption that the particles are always located in the classical space. There exists a substitute for thi...
THE GOODMAN PARADOX: THREE DIFFERENT PROBLEMS AND A NATURALISTIC SOLUTION TO TWO OF THEM.
Goodman paradox Hempel paradox Kitcher
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2008/4/21
It is now more than fifty years that the Goodman paradox has been discussed, and many different solutions have been proposed. But so far no agreement has been reached about which is the correct soluti...
The Tacking by Disjunction Paradox: Bayesianism versus Hypothetico-deductivism
Confirmation paradox tacking by disjunction Bayesianism
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2008/4/21
Hypothetico-deductivists have struggled to develop qualitative confirmation theories not raising the so-called tacking by disjunction paradox. In this paper, I analyze the difficulties yielded by the ...
Twin Paradox and the Logical Foundation of Relativity Theory
twin paradox relativity theory accelerated observers
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2008/4/21
We study the foundation of space-time theory in the framework of first-order logic (FOL). Since the foundation of mathematics has been successfully carried through (via set theory) in FOL, it is not e...
Two aggregation paradoxes in social decision making: the Ostrogorski paradox and the discursive dilemma
Judgment aggregation belief merging belief fusion
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2008/4/21
The Ostrogorski paradox and the discursive dilemma are seemingly unrelated paradoxes of aggregation. The former is discussed in traditional social choice theory, while the latter is at the core of the...
Zeno's Paradox: A response to Mr. Lynds
Mr. Lynds Zeno
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2008/4/15
A brief explanation of the heuristic value of paradoxes as well as a critique of Mr. Lynds's argument by reductio ad absurdam.