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
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 |
|---|---|
| Keywords | probability,hyperreal,Williamson |
| Departments | Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method |
| DOI | 10.1007/s13194-016-0147-z |
| Date Deposited | 25 Jul 2016 13:30 |
| URI | https://researchonline.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/67234 |
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