“Probable inference is more like measuring smoke than counting children, in that the probabilities themselves are not well defined.”—RT Cox
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That’s the Cox of the much-misunderstood Cox’s Theorem. http://yaroslavvb.com/papers/cox-algebra.pdf …
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@Meaningness much-misunderstood how? (curious as someone who's about to dive headlong into bayes)1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@cwage > is a complete account of rationality and epistemology. But every part of this is false.1 reply 0 retweets 1 like -
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@cwage PT does not generalize logic, only boolean algebra, which is a tiny subset of logic.1 reply 0 retweets 1 like -
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@cwage And PT + logic is a tiny subset of rationality, and a tiny subset of epistemology.3 replies 0 retweets 1 like -
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@Meaningness i assume logic WRT "rationality" is assuming some sort of game-theoryish cooperate/defect basis?1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
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