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A Puzzle for Christmas

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Everyone knows that Santa Claus likes to please people. But he doesn’t like to waste presents. He put money in my stocking. But we came to an agreement, he and I. Or rather, he explained the rules of the game to me.

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    R. Nozick, Newcomb’s Problem and Two principles of Choice, in N. Rescher and S. Library, Editors, Essays in Honor of Carl G. Hempel, D. Reidel, Dordrecht, 1969, p. 115.

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Crato, N. (2010). A Puzzle for Christmas. In: Figuring It Out. Copernicus, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-04833-3_55

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