Abstract
The 'best-system' analysis of lawhood [Lewis 1994] faces the 'zero-fit problem': that many systems of laws say that the chance of history going actually as it goes - the degree to which the theory 'fits' the actual course of history - is zero. Neither an appeal to infinitesimal probabilities nor a patch using standard measure theory avoids the difficulty. But there is a way to avoid it: replace the notion of 'fit' with the notion of a world being typical with respect to a theory.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Pages (from-to) | 67-76 |
| Number of pages | 10 |
| Journal | Australasian Journal of Philosophy |
| Volume | 82 |
| Issue number | 1 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - 2004 |
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- Philosophy