Could Everything Be True? Probably Not

Philosophia 43 (2):499-504 (2015)
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Trivialism is the doctrine that everything is true. Almost nobody believes it, but, as Priest shows, finding a non-question-begging argument against it turns out to be a difficult task. In this paper, I propose a statistical argument against trivialism, developing a strategy different from those presented in Priest

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Matteo Plebani
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