A new paper on arXiv traces the history and variations of the Muddy Children Puzzle, a logic puzzle that has influenced the development of epistemic logic. The authors explore the puzzle's origins across logical and literary publications over the last two centuries, noting its inspiration for numerous related puzzles involving numbers or colored hats. The paper also introduces a new self-referential hats puzzle. AI
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