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Chapter 7 - Rational Belief in Lottery- and Preface-Situations

Impossibility Results and Possible Solutions

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2021

By
Gerhard Schurz
Edited by
Igor Douven
Igor Douven
Affiliation:
Université Paris-Sorbonne
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Rational agents represent their beliefs about the world in two rather different ways. One way is by means of qualitative beliefs, or yes-or-no beliefs: Here a proposition p is either believed, or disbelieved (i.e., ¬p is believed), or belief about p is suspended. Thereby, with “rational belief that p” it is meant that the proposition p is believed to be true, or accepted as being true, whereby the system of beliefs satisfies certain rationality conditions.

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Lotteries, Knowledge, and Rational Belief
Essays on the Lottery Paradox
 , pp. 128 - 146
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2021

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