Regularity and infinitely tossed coins

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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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
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:	07 Nov 2024 21:36
URI:	http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/67234

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