Conventionality and Causality in Lewis-Type Evolutionary Prediction Games

Purves, Gordon Michael

doi:10.1093/bjps/axy076

The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science

2023

DOI: 10.1093/bjps/axy076

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Conventionality and Causality in Lewis-Type Evolutionary Prediction Games

Gordon Michael Purves

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Epistemology and the Structure of Language

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LaCroix

2020

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We are concerned here with how structural properties of language may come to reflect features of the world in which it evolves. As a concrete example, we will consider how a simple term language might evolve to support the principle of indifference over state descriptions in that language. The point is not that one is justified in applying the principle of indifference to state descriptions in natural language. Instead, it is that one should expect a language that has evolved in the context of facilitating successful action to reflect probabilistic features of the world in which it evolved.

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Epistemology and the Structure of Language

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Conventionality and Causality in Lewis-Type Evolutionary Prediction Games

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