logical view

The logical view: probability as objective degree of belief

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The view of probability as an objective degree of belief was developed in the early 20th century by people such as Harold Jeffreys and the the young John Maynard Keynes [1], and was later adopted by the influential philosopher of science, Rudolf Carnap [2]. This view is not widely held these days, either by statisticians or philosophers, though there seems to be something of recent revival (see for example Williamson 2005 [3].


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