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Lottery puzzles and Jesus' ‘Return’
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AbstractThis paper is about a puzzle – I'll call it ‘the Return’ – that puts considerable pressure upon Christians to accept a very robust scepticism about the future. Those familiar with work on so-called ‘lottery puzzles’ will notice much similarity between those puzzles and the Return. However, there is an important difference that renders the Return an especially difficult problem for a Christian who believes that he has much knowledge about the future. After introducing the Return, I'll argue that it is immune to the most promising non-sceptical approaches to more familiar lottery puzzles.
Title: Lottery puzzles and Jesus' ‘Return’
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AbstractThis paper is about a puzzle – I'll call it ‘the Return’ – that puts considerable pressure upon Christians to accept a very robust scepticism about the future.
Those familiar with work on so-called ‘lottery puzzles’ will notice much similarity between those puzzles and the Return.
However, there is an important difference that renders the Return an especially difficult problem for a Christian who believes that he has much knowledge about the future.
After introducing the Return, I'll argue that it is immune to the most promising non-sceptical approaches to more familiar lottery puzzles.
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