Awesome pair of blog posts by Terence Tao:
The “no self-defeating object” argument
The “no self-defeating object” argument, revisited
In the first post he examines such arguments in set theory, logic, computability, game theory, and physics. In the second post he casts these “counterfactual” arguments into more constructive ones.
Awesome pair of blog posts by Terence Tao:
The “no self-defeating object” argument
The “no self-defeating object” argument, revisited
In the first post he examines such arguments in set theory, logic, computability, game theory, and physics. In the second post he casts these “counterfactual” arguments into more constructive ones.