Indifference, neutrality and informativeness: Generalizing the three prisoners paradox

DOI10.1007/S11229-005-7016-1zbMath1083.03019OpenAlexW1972702043MaRDI QIDQ2576399

Sergio Wechsler, Cláudia M. Peixoto, Adilson Simonis, Luis Gustavo Esteves

Publication date: 12 December 2005

Published in: Synthese (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-005-7016-1

zbMATH Keywords

uniform prior distributionnoninformativenessThree Prisoners Paradox

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Philosophical and critical aspects of logic and foundations (03A05) Probability and inductive logic (03B48)

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