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That is literally not explicit (where by "literally" I mean literally, not figuratively, and by "explicit", I mean explicit, not implicit). It is sort of hinted at, but it is not explicitly said that the host will mechanically reveal a door that has a goat. It is quite conceivable that the host picks a door randomly, or in fact that he picks the door with the car with a certain probability (saving the show quite some money).


> It is literally explicit in the 1990 rendition.

> You pick a door, say #1, and the host, who knows what’s behind the doors, opens another door, say #3, which has a goat

Remove the parenthetical example "say #3", and the parenthetical "who knows what's behind the doors" and that sentence reads: "...and the host opens another door which has a goat".

The "has a goat" is not a hypothetical example. It's a (both literal and explicit) declaration of the rules statement. The rules seem very clear that the host will open a door with a goat.


It matters whether they choose the door because it has a goat vs. they randomly choose a door that happens to have a goat.

It's not explicitly saying the former even when stating the result, because everything is written as a certainty in retrospect. You can say, "the roulette wheel stopped on 00," but it was still a random event when it happened.


nope, it's ambiguous as stated, if you're a literalist.




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