Truthlikeness and the Lottery Paradox via the Preface Paradox

Australasian Journal of Philosophy 96 (2):391-397 (2018)
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In a 2017 AJP paper, Cevolani and Schurz propose a novel solution to the Preface Paradox that appeals to the notion of expected truthlikeness. This discussion note extends and analyses their approach by applying it to the related Lottery Paradox.

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10.1080/00048402.2017.1372491

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