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Showing posts with label self-locating belief. Show all posts
Showing posts with label self-locating belief. Show all posts
Tuesday, June 16, 2026

Is there some sort of a probability problem with a humongous but finite universe?

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It’s easy to generate probabilistic paradoxes in a universe (or multiverse) with infinitely many people (e.g., if infinitely many people rol...
Thursday, October 24, 2024

An impartiality premise

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In an argument that David Lewis’s account of possible worlds leads to inductive skepticism, I used this premise: If knowing that x is F ...
Friday, May 17, 2024

Yet another argument for thirding in Sleeping Beauty?

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Suppose that a fair coin has been flipped in my absence. If it’s heads, there is an independent 50% chance that I will be irresistably brain...
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Tuesday, May 7, 2024

Mushrooms

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Some people have the intuition that there is something fishy about doing standard Bayesian update on evidence E when one couldn’t have obse...
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Monday, May 1, 2023

Does my existence by itself confirm a multiverse?

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Suppose I am considering two hypotheses, H 1 and H 2 , and according to H 2 there are more people. Does the fact that I exist give me reas...
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Monday, June 21, 2021

Self-locating beliefs in the Trinity

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Here is a difficulty for the doctrine of the Trinity that I don’t remember coming across before: The Father and the Son have the numerical...
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