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Are we Only Five Minutes Old? Acock on the Age of the Universe

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 April 2022

Joseph Wayne Smith  and
Sharyn Ward
Joseph Wayne Smith
Affiliation:
Department of Philosophy, The University of Adelaide
Sharyn Ward
Affiliation:
Adelaide South Australia
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Malcolm Acock (1983) attempts to show that three widely accepted “solutions” to the philosophical problem of theory choice between the ordinary account of the age of the universe, and “Russell's hypothesis” that the world sprang into existence five minutes ago, are unsatisfactory. In the following paper we shall attempt to show why “Russell's hypothesis” is defective as a cosmological explanation of the age of the universe.

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Philosophy of Science , Volume 51 , Issue 3 , September 1984 , pp. 511 - 513
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Copyright © Philosophy of Science Association 1984

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