Franceschi, Paul (2014) The Simulation Argument and the Reference Class Problem: the dialectical contextualist's standpoint. [Preprint]
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Abstract
I present in this paper an analysis of the Simulation argument from a dialectical contextualist's standpoint. This analysis is grounded on the reference class problem. I begin with describing Bostrom’s Simulation Argument step-by-step. I identify then the reference class within the Simulation argument. I also point out a reference class problem, by applying the argument successively to several references classes: aware-simulations, rough-simulations and cyborg-type simulations. Finally, I point out that there are three levels of conclusion within the Simulation Argument, depending on the chosen reference class, that yield each final conclusions of a fundamentally different nature.
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Keywords: | Simulation argument, reference class, reference class problem, simulation | ||||||
Subjects: | Specific Sciences > Probability/Statistics General Issues > Thought Experiments |
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Depositing User: | Paul Franceschi | ||||||
Date Deposited: | 10 Jul 2014 13:28 | ||||||
Last Modified: | 10 Jul 2014 13:28 | ||||||
Item ID: | 10860 | ||||||
Subjects: | Specific Sciences > Probability/Statistics General Issues > Thought Experiments |
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Date: | 9 June 2014 | ||||||
URI: | https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/10860 |
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