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Perhaps it can, but the challenge then is to identify what's different about the professor's statement from a statement like "It's raining". Why doesn't the fir
by davnola 15y ago
Perhaps it can, but the challenge then is to identify what's different about the professor's statement from a statement like "It's raining". Why doesn't the first have a definite truth value, but the second does? (What the professor himself believes is not relevant to the actual truth of his statement.)
You might be interested in verificationism http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/logical-empiricism/#EmpVerAntMet http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/logical-empiricism/#EmpVer... (apologies if you know about it already).
- dspeyer 15y agoWhat's different about it is its circularity. The students' anticipations of the exam are based on their anticipations of the exam. Sort of like "this statement is false".
- davnola 15y agoThe students' anticipations of the exam are their anticipations of the exam. I don't see the circularity yet. It's clearer in the Liar Paradox.
- ajuc 15y agoCircularity is here: P( exam is today | P(exam is today | exam was not earlier) = 1) = 0 EDIT: if this is good formalisation of proffesor sentence. I'm not 100% sure.