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Gideon's paradox — A paradox of rationality

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  1. The Hebrew University, 91905, Jerusalem, Israel

    Maya Bar-Hillel & Avishai Margalit

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We wish to thank Gideon Schwarz for sharing the paradox he invented. We thank Edna Ullmann-Margalit for carefully reading and commenting on this paper, and Haim Gaifman, Amos Tversky and Menachem Yaari for discussions. This paper was presented at the 7th International Congress in Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science, Salzburg, 1983.

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Bar-Hillel, M., Margalit, A. Gideon's paradox — A paradox of rationality. Synthese 63, 139–155 (1985). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00485364

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