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Graham Priest's "escape from Hell" puzzle
I have never run into Priest’s puzzle before. This is interesting.
I suppose the calculations would go like this: At some point the probability of success rises high enough that, although the odds in ...
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Graham Priest's "escape from Hell" puzzle
The chapter is just Pascal's Wager and this, under the heading Decision Theory: Great Expectations, yet concludes with "So it looks as though the only rational thing to do is to be irrational!&...
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