title: A Dichotomic Analysis of the Surprise Examination Paradox creator: Franceschi, Paul subject: Epistemology description: This paper presents a dichotomic analysis of the surprise examination paradox. In section 1, I analyse the surprise notion in detail. I introduce then in section 2, the distinction between a monist and dichotomic analysis of the paradox. I also present there a dichotomy leading to distinguish two basically and structurally different versions of the paradox, respectively based on a conjoint and a disjoint definition of the surprise. In section 3, I describe the solution to SEP corresponding to the conjoint definition. Lastly, I expose in section 4, the solution to SEP based on the disjoint definition. date: 2002-04 type: Preprint type: NonPeerReviewed format: application/pdf identifier: http://cogprints.org/2184/3/%24sep-en.pdf identifier: Franceschi, Paul (2002) A Dichotomic Analysis of the Surprise Examination Paradox. [Preprint] relation: http://cogprints.org/2184/