Abstract
Mathematicians, logicians, and others occasionally use the idea of ‘random individuals’ in their expositions, and sometimes even have resort to these for serious theoretical purposes. The object of the present note is to demonstrate the logical impropriety of such procedure.
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Rescher, N. (1968). Can There be Random Individuals?. In: Topics in Philosophical Logic. Synthese Library, vol 17. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-3546-9_8
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