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Random and Systematic Error in the Puzzle of the Unmarked Clock
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Abstract
A puzzle of an unmarked clock, used by Timothy Williamson to
question the KK principle, was separately adapted by David Christensen and
Adam Elga to critique a principle of Rational Reflection. Both authors, we
argue, flout the received relationship between ideal agency and the classical
distinction between systematic and random error, namely that ideal agents are
subject only to the latter. As a result, these criticisms miss their mark