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

DOI10.1007/S11229-020-02555-WOpenAlexW3007202214MaRDI QIDQ2695413FDOQ2695413

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

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zbMATH Keywords

lottery paradoxprobabilistic inferencesveritic luckfallible knowledgerational inconsistency

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Philosophy of mathematics (00A30)

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• The epistemic virtues of consistency
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• Elusive knowledge
• Impossibility results for rational belief
• Fallibilism, verisimilitude, and the preface paradox
• A way out of the Preface Paradox?

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• On lottery sales, jackpot sizes and irrationality: a cautionary note

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