The Roots of the Paradox of Predictability: A Reply to Gijsbers.
The paradox of predictability refers to situations in which, even in a deterministic universe, a correct prediction of a future action is seemingly impossible because the agent whose action is predicted is determined to act counterpredictively. In a recent contribution to this journal, Victor Gijsbe...
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Jun2024
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