Deception in Sender–Receiver Games

Erkenntnis 80 (1):215-227 (2015)
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Abstract

Godfrey-Smith advocates for linking deception in sender-receiver games to the existence of undermining signals. I present games in which deceptive signals can be arbitrarily frequent, without this undermining information transfer between sender and receiver

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Manolo Martínez
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