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| Paradox | |
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| Brains in Vats | |
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| Dreams and Evil Geniuses | |
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| Ambiguity | |
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| Is Anything Certain? | |
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| Deduction and Induction | |
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| Confirmation Theory | |
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| Paradox | |
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| Science as a Map | |
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| Paradox and SATISFIABILITY | |
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| The Universal Problem | |
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| Induction: Hempel's Raven | |
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| Confirmation | |
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| Matter and Antimatter | |
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| Absolute and Incremental Confirmation | |
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| Counterexamples | |
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| Crank Theories | |
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| Contrapositives | |
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| Never Say Never | |
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| Stream of Consciousness | |
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| Infinitesimal Confirmation | |
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| The Paradox of the 99-Foot Man | |
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| Ravens and Total Evidence | |
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| Categories: The Grue-Bleen Paradox | |
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| Grue Emeralds | |
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| Gerrymander Categories | |
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| Counterfactuals | |
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| The Rotating Color Wheel | |
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| The Inverted Spectrum | |
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| Demon Theory No. 16 | |
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| Anything Confirms Anything | |
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| Ockam's Razor | |
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| The Day of Judgment | |
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| Projectability | |
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| Are Quark Colors Grue-ish? | |
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| The Unknowable: Nocturnal Doubling | |
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| Antirealism | |
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| Physics Goes Haywire | |
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| Demons and Doubling | |
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| Variations | |
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| Did Time Begin Five Minutes Ago? | |
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| Perils of Antirealism | |
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| Black-Hole Probes | |
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| Other Minds | |
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| Nocturnal Doubling of Pleasure/Pain | |
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| Is Reality Unique? | |
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| Interlude: The Puzzles of John H. Watson, M.D. | |
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| A Test of Ingenuity | |
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| Gas, Water, and Electricity | |
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| The Company Grapevine | |
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| The Graveyard Riddle | |
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| A Surveyor's Quandary | |
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| Solutions | |
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| Deduction: The Paradox of the Heap | |
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| Theseus' Ship | |
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| Sorites | |
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| Complexity | |
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| Liars and Truth Tellers | |
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| Who Is Lying? | |
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| Satisfiability | |
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| The Pork-Chop Problem | |
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| The Elevator Problem | |
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| Science and Puzzles | |
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| Belief: The Unexpected Hanging | |
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| Pop Quizzes and Hidden Eggs | |
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| Hollis's Paradox | |
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| A Minimal Paradox | |
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| A Time-Travel Paradox | |
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| What Is Knowledge? | |
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| Science and the Tripartite Account | |
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| Buridan Sentences | |
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| Gettier Counterexamples | |
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| A Fourth Condition | |
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| The Prisoner and Gettier | |
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| The Impossible: The Expectancy Paradox | |
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| Catch-22 | |
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| Can Such Things Be? | |
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| Possible Worlds | |
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| How Many Worlds Are Possible? | |
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| Paradox and Possible Worlds | |
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| The Paradox of the Preface | |
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| Must Justified Beliefs Be Compatible? | |
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| Pollock's Gas Chamber | |
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| Infinity: The Thomson Lamp | |
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| The Pi Machine | |
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| Zeno's Paradoxes | |
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| Building a Thomson Lamp | |
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| Geometric Progressions | |
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| The Malthusian Catastrophe | |
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| Olbers's Paradox | |
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| Against Plurality | |
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| Olbers's Paradox Resolved | |
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| The Paradox of Tristram Shandy | |
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| NP-Completeness: The Labyrinth of Ts'ui Pen | |
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| NP-Complete | |
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| Maze Algorithms | |
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| The Right-Hand Rule | |
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| The Tremaux Algorithm | |
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| An Infinite Labyrinth | |
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| The Ore Algorithm | |
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| NP-Completeness of the Maze | |
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| The Oracle of the Maze | |
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| P and NP | |
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| The Hardest Problem | |
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| A Catalogue of Experience | |
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| A Computer as Big as the Universe | |
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| Meaning: Twin Earth | |
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| Roger Bacon | |
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| False Decodings | |
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| Sense and Gibberish | |
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| The Parable of the Cave | |
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| The Electronic Cave | |
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| The Binary Cave | |
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| Can a Brain in a Vat Know It? | |
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| Twin Earth | |
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| Twin Earth Chemistry | |
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| The Libraries of Atlantis | |
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| Poe's iiiii ... Cipher | |
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| Brute Force | |
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| Justifying a Decipherment | |
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| Where Is Meaning? | |
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| Mind: Searle's Chinese Room | |
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| The Thinking Machine | |
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| The Paradox of Functionalism | |
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| The Turing Test | |
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| The Chinese Room | |
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| Brains and Milk | |
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| Reactions | |
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| Chinese the Hard Way | |
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| Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde | |
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| The Systems Reply | |
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| A Page from the Instructions | |
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| A Conversation with Einstein's Brain | |
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| Omniscience: Newcomb's Paradox | |
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| The Paradox of Omniscience | |
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| The Prisoner's Dilemma | |
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| Newcomb's Paradox | |
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| Reactions | |
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| Glass Boxes | |
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| Nozick's Two Principles of Choice | |
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| Must It Be a Hoax? | |
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| Two Types of Prediction | |
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| Chaos | |
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| Free Will vs. Determinism | |
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| Prediction and Infinite Regress | |
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| Newcomb's Paradox 3000 A.D. | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Index | |