Probabilities cannot be rationally neglected

• Autores: Yoaav Isaacs
• Localización: Mind, ISSN-e 1460-2113, Vol. 125, Nº. 499, 2016, págs. 759-762
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • In response to Smith (2014), I argue that probabilities cannot be rationally neglected. I show that Smith’s proposal for ignoring low-probability outcomes must, on pain of violating dominance reasoning, license taking arbitrarily high risk for arbitrarily little reward.