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Where is the ambiguity in "opens another door which has a goat"?
by zzt 8y ago
Where is the ambiguity in "opens another door which has a goat"?
- dekhn 8y agoWhat happens in the next trial? Does MOnty always open a goat door, not a car door?
- DanBC 8y agoWhy on earth would he open the prize door?
- dekhn 8y agoSo, in retrospect that's obvious, but it's also not stated. I just assumed half the time he opened a prize door (I had watched the TV show a few times and... they did weird shit).
- ColinWright 8y agoWe are told that the host knows what's behind the other doors, which implies that the door he opens is deliberately chosen and is not random. Additionally, to open the door with the prize would terminate the game, so to open the door with the goat is the only action that makes sense given what we know.
- dekhn 8y agoI agree, those are reasonable interpretations made from somebody who has done a close reading of the text. Or you know, somebody could just write a computer program that described the rules unambiguously so everybody could inspect them and not have to make reasonable interpretations.