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Showing posts with label principle of indifference. Show all posts
Showing posts with label principle of indifference. Show all posts
Thursday, November 17, 2016

Against isotropy

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We think of Euclidean space as isotropic: any two points in space are exactly alike both intrinsically and relationally, and if we rotated o...
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Monday, October 17, 2016

The many-worlds interpretation and probability

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The probability of a proposition p equals the probability that p is true. I have argued that this principle refutes open future views. It...
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Monday, October 5, 2015

The Principles of Indifference and Sufficient Reason

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The Principle of Indifference says that we should assign equal probabilities to outcomes that are on par. Why? The thing to say is surely: ...
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Friday, July 19, 2013

Symmetry and Indifference

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Suppose we have some situation where either event A or event B occurred, but not both, and the two events are on par : our epist...
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Wednesday, June 26, 2013

Indifference is dead, again

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I've noted that given the Axiom of Choice, the Hausdorff Paradox kills the principle of indifference. But we don't need the Ax...
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Thursday, March 28, 2013

The principle of indifference and paradoxical decomposition

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There are many paradoxes for the Principle of Indifference. Here's yet another. The Hausdorff Paradox tells us that (given the A...
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