Contradictory Information: Better Than Nothing? The Paradox of the Two Firefighters

DOI10.1007/978-3-030-25365-3_12zbMath1469.03075OpenAlexW2998465588MaRDI QIDQ3305666

Nicholas M. Kiefer, J. Michael Dunn

Publication date: 10 August 2020

Published in: Outstanding Contributions to Logic (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-25365-3_12

zbMATH Keywords

paradoxBayesinformationconditional probabilitysubjective probabilityrelevance logicdialetheismparaconsistent logicscontradictionopinion tetrahedronlinear opinion pooling

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Philosophical and critical aspects of logic and foundations (03A05) Logics of knowledge and belief (including belief change) (03B42) Probability and inductive logic (03B48) Logic in computer science (03B70) Paraconsistent logics (03B53)

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