Knowing against the odds

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Philosophical Studies 170 (2):277-287 (2014)
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We present and discuss a counterexample to the following plausible principle: if you know that a coin is fair, and for all you know it is going to be flipped, then for all you know it will land tails.

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10.1007/s11098-013-0212-9

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Jeremy Goodman
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John Hawthorne
University of Southern California
Cian Dorr
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