The Lottery Paradox Generalized?
The Lottery Paradox Generalized?
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彩票悖论普遍化?
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发表时间:
2010
影响因子:
3.4
通讯作者:
J. Chandler
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作者:
J. Chandler
In a recent article, Douven and Williamson offer both (i) a rebuttal of various recent suggested sufficient conditions for rational acceptability and (ii) an alleged ‘generalization’ of this rebuttal, which, they claim, tells against a much broader class of potential suggestions. However, not only is the result mentioned in (ii) not a generalization of the findings referred to in (i), but in contrast to the latter, it fails to have the probative force advertised. Their paper does however, if unwittingly, bring us a step closer to a precise characterization of an important class of rationally unacceptable propositions—the class of lottery propositions for equiprobable lotteries. This helps pave the way to the construction of a genuinely lottery-paradox-proof alternative to the suggestions criticized in (i). 1. Probability and Acceptance2. Three Proposals and a Counterargument3. Generalizing the Counterargument?4. The Lottery Paradox: Towards a ‘Formal’ Solution Probability and Acceptance Three Proposals and a Counterargument Generalizing the Counterargument? The Lottery Paradox: Towards a ‘Formal’ Solution