Regularity and infinitely tossed coins

European Journal for Philosophy of Science 7 (1):97-102 (2017)
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Abstract

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.

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Colin Howson
Last affiliation: London School of Economics