“Probable inference is more like measuring smoke than counting children, in that the probabilities themselves are not well defined.”—RT Cox
@GrumplessGrinch @cwage > confused, but I think the phrase “Aristotelian logic” was what tripped him up. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Term_logic
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@GrumplessGrinch@cwage Anyway, the upshot is that Jaynes didn’t understand that Cox’s theorem applies only to boolean algebra, which > -
@GrumplessGrinch@cwage > is a system with (1) binary values and (2) no quantification. PT generalizes (1) but doesn’t deal with (2). - 12 more replies
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