Open AccessSharvy’s Lucy and Benjamin Puzzle
Author(s) -
Thomas Hamilton Forster
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
studia logica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.736
H-Index - 39
eISSN - 1572-8730
pISSN - 0039-3215
DOI - 10.1007/s11225-008-9153-2
Subject(s) - computational linguistics , point (geometry) , fixed point , mathematics , mathematical economics , fixed point theorem , calculus (dental) , computer science , algebra over a field , discrete mathematics , linguistics , philosophy , pure mathematics , artificial intelligence , mathematical analysis , geometry , medicine , dentistry
Sharvy's puzzle concerns a situation in which common knowledge of two parties is obtained by repeated observation each of the other, no fixed point being reached in finite time. Can a fixed point be reached?
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