Probability theory and the doomsday argument.
Argues on author John Leslie's contentions in his article reports which applies probability theories to a Doomsday concept. Humans of the future observing things in the present; Equiprobable sampling; Birth-order ranking; Bayes' theorem; Indeterminism; Random selection.
| Published in: | Mind (0026-4423) Vol. 102; no. 407; pp. 483 - 489 |
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| Format: | Article |
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Oxford University Press / USA
Jul93
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