An ontological investigation of unimaginable events

Autor: Santoli, Thomas, Siebenbrunner, Christoph
Rok vydání: 2018
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Druh dokumentu: Working Paper
Popis: We show that, under mild assumptions, some unimaginable events - which we refer to as Black Swan events - must necessarily occur. It follows as a corollary of our theorem that any computational model of decision-making under uncertainty is incomplete in the sense that not all events that occur can be taken into account. In the context of decision theory we argue that this constitutes a stronger sense of uncertainty than Knightian uncertainty.
Databáze: arXiv