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RECOGNIZING STRONG RANDOM REALS

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 June 2008

DANIEL OSHERSON  and
SCOTT WEINSTEIN
DANIEL OSHERSON*
Affiliation:
Princeton University
SCOTT WEINSTEIN*
Affiliation:
University of Pennsylvania
*
*DEPARTMENT OF PSYCHOLOGY, PRINCETON UNIVERSITY, PRINCETON, NJ 08544, USA. E-mail: osherson@princeton.edu
†DEPARTMENT OF PHILOSOPHY, UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA, PHILADELPHIA, PA 19104, USA. E-mail: Weinstein@cis.upenn.edu
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Abstract

The class of strong random reals can be defined via a natural conception of effective null set. We show that the same class is also characterized by a learning-theoretic criterion of ‘recognizability’.

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Research Article
Information
The Review of Symbolic Logic , Volume 1 , Issue 1 , June 2008 , pp. 56 - 63
Copyright
Copyright © Association for Symbolic Logic 2008

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