Wilhelm, Isaac (2025) Typicality First. The Philosophical Quarterly.
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Instances of the law of large numbers are used to model many different physical systems. In this paper, I argue for a particular interpretation, of those instances of that law, which appeals to typicality. As I argue, the content of that law, when used to model physical systems, is that the probability of an event typically---rather than probably---approximates the frequency with which that event occurs.
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| Keywords: | typicality, probability, philosophy of science, philosophy of physics, measure theory | ||||||
| Subjects: | Specific Sciences > Physics Specific Sciences > Probability/Statistics |
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| Depositing User: | Isaac Wilhelm | ||||||
| Date Deposited: | 15 Dec 2025 20:25 | ||||||
| Last Modified: | 15 Dec 2025 20:25 | ||||||
| Item ID: | 27495 | ||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | The Philosophical Quarterly | ||||||
| Subjects: | Specific Sciences > Physics Specific Sciences > Probability/Statistics |
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| Date: | 2025 | ||||||
| URI: | https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/27495 |
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