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The Principle of Indifference and Imprecise Probability

Author(s) -

Rinard Susanna

Publication year - 2014

Publication title -

thought: a journal of philosophy

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.429

H-Index - 8

ISSN - 2161-2234

DOI - 10.1002/tht3.118

Subject(s) - credence , space (punctuation) , mathematics , mathematical economics , point (geometry) , interval (graph theory) , extreme point , epistemology , calculus (dental) , combinatorics , statistics , philosophy , medicine , linguistics , geometry , dentistry

Sometimes different partitions of the same space each seem to divide that space into propositions that call for equal epistemic treatment. Famously, equal treatment in the form of equal point‐valued credence leads to incoherence. Some have argued that equal treatment in the form of equal interval‐valued credence solves the puzzle. This paper shows that, once we rule out intervals with extreme endpoints, this proposal also leads to incoherence.

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