Sharvy’s Lucy and Benjamin Puzzle

Studia Logica 90 (2):249-256 (2008)
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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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10.1007/s11225-008-9153-2

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