Metainduction over Unboundedly Many Prediction Methods: A Reply to Arnold and Sterkenburg

Philosophy of Science 88 (2):320-340 (2021)
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The universal optimality theorem for metainduction works for epistemic agents faced with a choice among finitely many prediction methods. Eckhart Arnold and Tom Sterkenburg objected that it breaks...

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The problem of induction.John Vickers - 2008 - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.

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