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...

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Published in:	Philosophy of Science Vol. 76; no. 1; pp. 73 - 101
Main Author:	Pisaturo, Ronald
Format:	Article
Published:	Cambridge University Press Jan2009
Subjects:	Longevity Evidence Future (Logic) Logical prediction Bayesian analysis
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