Past Longevity as Evidence for the Future.
Gott (1993) has used the 'Copernican principle' to derive a probability distribution for the total longevity of any phenomenon, based solely on the phenomenon's past longevity. Leslie (1996) and others have used an apparently similar probabilistic argument, the 'Doomsday Argument', to claim that con...
| Publicado en: | Philosophy of Science Vol. 76; no. 1; pp. 73 - 101 |
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Cambridge University Press
Jan2009
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