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Fair infinite lotteries

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This article discusses how the concept of a fair finite lottery can best be extended to denumerably infinite lotteries. Techniques and ideas from non-standard analysis are brought to bear on the problem.

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Acknowledgements

Thanks to Hannes Leitgeb, Vieri Benci, Richard Pettigrew, and Lieven Decock for valuable discussions and comments. The contribution of SW was supported by the Odysseus Grant Formal Epistemology: Foundations and Applications funded by the Research Foundation Flanders (FWO-Vlaanderen). The contribution of LH was in part supported by the AHRC project Foundations of Structuralism (AH/H001670/1).

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  1. Faculty of Philosophy, University of Groningen, Oude Boteringestraat 52, 9712 GL, Groningen, The Netherlands

    Sylvia Wenmackers

  2. Department of Philosophy, University of Bristol, 43 Woodland Road, Bristol, BS81UU, UK

    Leon Horsten

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Wenmackers, S., Horsten, L. Fair infinite lotteries. Synthese 190, 37–61 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-010-9836-x

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Keywords

  • Foundations of probability
  • Non-standard analysis
  • Countable additivity
  • Infinity