@themattsimpson Well, Cox’s book is delightful. Lots of funny footnotes. I can see why Rota liked it. “Kultur” he would say.
@themattsimpson Actually, I’d say don’t read the book. It’s entertaining, but Halpern has shown that the theorem is just utterly false.
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@themattsimpson It doesn’t seem to be possible to rescue it, although the underlying intuition is probably approximately correctly.
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@themattsimpson This makes my exposition more complicated. The point I *want* to make is that Jaynes misunderstood Cox.
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