Probability and the Logic of Rational Belief

Kyburg, H. E. (1961). Probability and the Logic of Rational Belief. Wesleyan University Press.

Type

Book

Intellectual base

Review or monograph

Year

1961

Link

https://openlibrary.org/works/OL10480856Wmatched

Cited from

philosophy

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Primes

• Paradox
  • Zeno's paradoxes (Achilles, the arrow, the stadium); Banach-Tarski paradox; Skolem paradox in model theory; paradoxes of infinity and limits; Cantor's diagonal argument as productive generator of transfinite mathematics; paradoxes in formal arithmetic and incompleteness theory (Gödel). Epistemic and probabilistic paradoxes

    This sourceKyburg lottery paradox belief.

• Statistical syllogism
  • … projects the already warranted prevalence onto i. Henry Kyburg treated such direct inference as central to connecting frequency knowledge with rational degrees of belief in individual propositions, while emphasizing that the applicable body of statistical knowledge and the choice of reference class govern the result.

Domain-specific

• Lottery paradox
  • … observable transfers from In a thousand-ticket fair lottery, each ticket's loss has probability .999, yet accepting all thousand loss claims contradicts the rules. to Epistemic analysis specifies acceptance, belief and knowledge norms rather than treating numerical confidence as automatically closed under logic..

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