Generalizing the lottery paradox
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...
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| description | 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 generalized, showing that a broad class of similar solutions faces the same problem. |
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| spelling | oxford-uuid:e22a9881-0295-4042-887e-4445add03aed2022-03-27T09:59:09ZGeneralizing the lottery paradoxJournal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_dcae04bcuuid:e22a9881-0295-4042-887e-4445add03aedEnglishSymplectic Elements at Oxford2006Douven, IWilliamson, TThis 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 generalized, showing that a broad class of similar solutions faces the same problem. |
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