Objective Bayesian Epistemology for Inductive Logic on Predicate Languages
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Main Objective. The main aim of this work is to provide a new justification of the three norms of objective Bayesian epistemology: that degrees of belief should be (i) probabilities, (ii) calibrated to evidence of physical probabilities, and (iii) sufficiently equivocal or non-extreme. While these norms are typically each justified in different ways, it is shown that they can be given a unified justification in terms of minimising worst-case expected loss.
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