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The Price of Broadminded Probabilities and the Limitation of Science – Haim Gaifman (Columbia)
4:10 pm
The Price of Broadminded Probabilities and the Limitation of Science – Haim Gaifman (Columbia)
@ Faculty House, Columbia U
Dec 8 @ 4:10 pm
A subjective probability function is broadminded to the extent that it assigns positive probabilities to conjectures that can be possibly true. Assigning to such a conjecture the value 0 amounts to a priori ruling out the possibility of confirming the conjecture to any extent by the growing evidence. A positive value leaves, in principle, the possibility of learning from the evidence. In general, broadmindedness is not an absolute notion, but a graded one, and there[...]
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