Lotteries, knowledge, and inconsistent belief: why you know your ticket will lose

DOI10.1007/S11229-020-02555-WMaRDI QIDQ2695413zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Mylan jun. Engel

Publication date 31 March 2023

Published in Synthese (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-020-02555-w

zbMATH Keywords

lottery paradoxprobabilistic inferencesveritic luckfallible knowledgerational inconsistency

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Philosophy of mathematics (00A30)

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