The supertask argument against countable additivity

• Autores: Jon Pérez Laraudogoitia
• Localización: Philosophical Studies, ISSN-e 1573-0883, Vol. 168, Nº. 3, 2014, págs. 619-628
• Idioma: alemán
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• Resumen

  • This paper proves that certain supertasks constitute counterexamples to countable additivity even in the frame of an objective (not subjective, à la de Finetti) conception of probability. The argument requires taking conditional probability as a primitive notion.