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Sharvy’s Lucy and Benjamin Puzzle

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Sharvy’s puzzle concerns a situation in which common knowledge of two parties is obtained by repeated observation each of the other, no fixed point being reached in finite time. Can a fixed point be reached?

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  1. Department of Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK

    Thomas Forster

  2. Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand

    Thomas Forster

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Forster, T. Sharvy’s Lucy and Benjamin Puzzle. Stud Logica 90, 249–256 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11225-008-9153-2

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