Infinitesimals are too small for countably infinite fair lotteries

We show that infinitesimal probabilities are much too small for modeling the individual outcome of a countably infinite fair lottery.

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Published in:Synthese (Dordrecht) 2014-04, Vol.191 (6), p.1051-1057
Main Author: Pruss, Alexander R.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Cardinality
Education
Epistemology
Logic
Lotteries
Metaphysics
Natural numbers
Paradoxes
Philosophy
Philosophy of Language
Philosophy of Science
Probability
Real numbers
Reasoning
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Summary:We show that infinitesimal probabilities are much too small for modeling the individual outcome of a countably infinite fair lottery.
ISSN:0039-7857
1573-0964
DOI:10.1007/s11229-013-0307-z