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- Title
New objections to the problem of unconceived alternatives.
- Authors
Park, Seungbae
- Abstract
The problem of unconceived alternatives can be undermined, regardless of whether the possibility space of alternatives is bounded or unbounded. If it is bounded, pessimists need to justify their assumption that the probability that scientists have not yet eliminated enough false alternatives is higher than the probability that scientists have already eliminated enough false alternatives. If it is unbounded, pessimists need to justify their assumption that the probability that scientists have not yet moved from the possibility space of false alternatives to the possibility space of true alternatives is higher than the probability that scientists have already moved from the former to the latter space.
- Subjects
PESSIMISM; SCIENTISTS; REALISM; SKEPTICISM; SCIENTIFIC method
- Publication
Filosofia UNISINOS, 2019, Vol 20, Issue 2, p138
- ISSN
1519-5023
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.4013/fsu.2019.202.03