HOW TO PREDICT FUTURE DURATION FROM PRESENT AGE.
The physicist J. Richard Gott has given an argument which, if good, allows one to make accurate predictions for the future longevity of a process, based solely on its present age. We show that there are problems with some of the details of Gott's argument, but we defend the core thesis: in many circ...
| Publicado en: | Philosophical Quarterly Vol. 56; no. 222; pp. 16 - 39 |
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Oxford University Press / USA
Jan2006
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| Sumario: | The physicist J. Richard Gott has given an argument which, if good, allows one to make accurate predictions for the future longevity of a process, based solely on its present age. We show that there are problems with some of the details of Gott's argument, but we defend the core thesis: in many circumstances, the greater the present age of a process, the more likely a longer future duration. |
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