“Probable inference is more like measuring smoke than counting children, in that the probabilities themselves are not well defined.”—RT Cox
That’s the Cox of the much-misunderstood Cox’s Theorem. http://yaroslavvb.com/papers/cox-algebra.pdf … #Bayesianism
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@Meaningness much-misunderstood how? (curious as someone who's about to dive headlong into bayes) -
@cwage The folk version of Cox’s theorem is that probability is the only correct generalization of logic for uncertainty, and therefore > - 21 more replies
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