Howson, Colin (2017) Regularity and infinitely tossed coins. European Journal for Philosophy of Science, 7 (1). pp. 97-102. ISSN 1879-4912
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Identification Number: 10.1007/s13194-016-0147-z
Abstract
Timothy Williamson has claimed to prove that regularity must fail even in a nonstandard setting, with a counterexample based on tossing a fair coin infinitely many times. I argue that Williamson’s argument is mistaken, and that a corrected version shows that it is not regularity which fails in the non-standard setting but a fundamental property of shifts in Bernoulli processes.
Item Type: | Article |
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Official URL: | http://link.springer.com/journal/13194 |
Additional Information: | © 2016 The Author © CC BY 4.0 |
Divisions: | Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method |
Subjects: | B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > B Philosophy (General) Q Science > QA Mathematics |
Date Deposited: | 25 Jul 2016 13:30 |
Last Modified: | 12 Dec 2024 01:22 |
URI: | http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/67234 |
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