tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3891434218564545511.post8658669818048498937..comments2024-03-27T20:37:09.185-05:00Comments on Alexander Pruss's Blog: Closure for credence thresholds is atypicalAlexander R Prusshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05989277655934827117noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3891434218564545511.post-31219446534481935262018-03-27T16:22:28.438-05:002018-03-27T16:22:28.438-05:00One of my half-baked views is that we only make ou...One of my half-baked views is that we only make our mental representations as complicated as they need to be. So for most beliefs, we have a binary true/false model. These would be closed under conjunction. But when we work harder, we assign things like credences (typically rough and vague ones, and getting more sophisticated as necessary. For yet more sophisticated beliefs, we might add a probability distribution.) For these, closure would fail for reasons you point out. It is a terminological issue whether we want to call all of these things "beliefs" but it's good to see what the tradeoffs here are.Heath Whitehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13535886546816778688noreply@blogger.com