Random and Systematic Error in the Puzzle of the Unmarked Clock

Abstract

A puzzle of an unmarked clock, used by Timothy Williamson to question the KK principle, was separately adapted by David Christensen and Adam Elga to critique a principle of Rational Reflection. Both authors, we argue, flout the received relationship between ideal agency and the classical distinction between systematic and random error, namely that ideal agents are subject only to the latter. As a result, these criticisms miss their mark.

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Randall G. McCutcheon
University of Memphis

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Very Improbable Knowing.Timothy Williamson - 2014 - Erkenntnis 79 (5):971-999.
Rational Reflection.David Christensen - 2010 - Philosophical Perspectives 24 (1):121-140.
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Margins for error and the sorites paradox.Peter Mott - 1998 - Philosophical Quarterly 48 (193):494-504.

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