Lotteries And Contexts |
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Authors: | Peter Baumann |
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Institution: | (1) Department of Philosophy, University of Aberdeen, Old Brewery High Street, Aberdeen, AB24 3UB, UK |
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Abstract: | There are many ordinary propositions we think we know. Almost every ordinary proposition entails some lottery proposition which we think we do not know but to which we assign a high probability of being true (for instance: I will never be a multi-millionaire entails I will not win this lottery ). How is this possible – given that some closure principle is true? This problem, also known as the Lottery puzzle , has recently provoked a lot of discussion. In this paper I discuss one of the most promising answers to the problem: Stewart Cohen s contextualist solution, which is based on ideas about the salience of chances of error. After presenting some objections to it I sketch an alternative solution which is still contextualist in spirit. |
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