Modelling degrees of truth: A case for objective probability
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Chris Fermüller has recently put forward a convincing interpretation of Lukasiewicz real valued logic based on Giles’s games (see, eg. Fermüller and Metcalfe, 2009; Fermüller, 2010). As the latter are based on probability, this solution can be seen as muddling up the clear and widely endorsed distinction between degrees of truth and degrees of belief. I argue that the distinction need not be given up, provided that we allow for a suitably interpreted notion of objective probability.
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