@misc{Lexicon of Arguments, title = {Quotation from: Lexicon of Arguments – Concepts - Ed. Martin Schulz, 29 Mar 2024}, author = {Cresswell,Maxwell J.}, subject = {Reliability Theory}, note = {II 66 Distinction/reliability/meaning/possible world/Cresswell: the worlds that determine the rightness or wrongness of the display should not be finer than the distinctive worlds to which the machine reacts. >Fine-grained/coarse-grained. Reliability: otherwise you might not expect in principle that it is reliable from the machine. We would then not understand what it means to be reliable. >Understanding. Def Reliability, generally: the machine is reliable in world w iff w is in the set of worlds which represent what the machine in w says how things could be.}, note = { Cr I M. J. Cresswell Semantical Essays (Possible worlds and their rivals) Dordrecht Boston 1988 Cr II M. J. Cresswell Structured Meanings Cambridge Mass. 1984 }, file = {http://philosophy-science-humanities-controversies.com/listview-details.php?id=280513} url = {http://philosophy-science-humanities-controversies.com/listview-details.php?id=280513} }