Journal article
Generalizing the lottery paradox
- Abstract:
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This paper is concerned with formal solutions to the lottery paradox on which high probability defeasibly warrants acceptance. It considers some recently proposed solutions of this type and presents an argument showing that these solutions are trivial in that they boil down to the claim that perfect probability is sufficient for rational acceptability. The argument is then generalizes, showing that a broad class of similar solutions faces the same problem.
- An argument against...
- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- 10.1093/bjps/axl022
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Bibliographic Details
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press Publisher's website
- Journal:
- British Journal for the Philosophy of Science Journal website
- Volume:
- 57
- Issue:
- 4
- Pages:
- 755-779
- Publication date:
- 2006-01-01
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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1464-3537
- ISSN:
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0007-0882
Item Description
- Language:
- English
- Subjects:
- UUID:
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uuid:1240b533-b40d-4568-abf2-19fa97833130
- Local pid:
- ora:5606
- Deposit date:
- 2011-07-21
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- Copyright holder:
- I Douven & T Williamson
- Copyright date:
- 2006
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