Belief and Self-Knowledge: Lessons From Moore's Paradox

Lessons From the Obesity Paradox

16Comments and Opinions Body Weight After Stroke Lessons From the Obesity Paradox Nadja Scherbakov, MD; Ulrich Dirnagl, MD; Wolfram Doehner, MD, PhD (Stroke. 2011;42:3646-3650.)

Self-Reference, Knowledge, Belief, and Modality

An apparently negative result of Montague has diverted research in formal modalities away from syntactic (“first-order”) approaches, encouraging rather weak and semantically complex modal formalisms, especially in representing epistemic notions. We show that, Montague notwithstanding, consistent and straightforward firstorder syntactic treatments of modality are possible, especially for belief ...

From Knowledge to Belief

Bertrand’s Paradox Revisited: More Lessons about that Ambiguous Word, Random

The Bertrand paradox question is: “Consider a unit-radius circle for which the length of a side of an inscribed equilateral triangle equals 3 . Determine the probability that the length of a ‘random’ chord of a unit-radius circle has length greater than 3 .” Bertrand derived three different ‘correct’ answers, the correctness depending on interpretation of the word, random. Here we employ geomet...

Reasoning about Belief and Knowledge with Self-Reference and Time

In two previous papers (Asher & Karnp 1986,1987), Hans Kamp and I developed a framework for investigating the logic of attitudes whose objects involved an unlimited capacity for self-reference. The framework was the daughter of two well-known parents-possible worlds semantics and the revisionist, semi-inductive theory of truth developed by Herzberger (1982) and Gupta (1982). Nevertheless, the o...