Reasoning about the future: Doom and beauty

DOI10.1007/S11229-006-9132-YzbMATH Open1124.03302OpenAlexW2000599079MaRDI QIDQ2460147FDOQ2460147

Authors: Dennis Dieks 

Publication date: 14 November 2007

Published in: Synthese (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-006-9132-y

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zbMATH Keywords

BayesSleeping BeautyDoomsdayProbability updating

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Philosophical and critical aspects of logic and foundations (03A05) Philosophy of mathematics (00A30) Axioms; other general questions in probability (60A05)

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