gts wrote: [Jef wrote:] >>> That's like saying you have no use for [the idea that] a >>> balance scale reads zero when both pans are empty. > > Your beef is not just with me; it is with Bruno De Finetti and > Frank P. Ramsey and their modern followers in the subjectivist > school of probability theory, most of whom call themselves > subjective bayesians. > > At the risk of mixing metaphors: > > A subjectivist has no use for the idea of an empty scale no matter > how it might balance, because after all there is nothing there to weigh.
On the contrary, a subjectivist understands that even to pose a question, one must have some prior. You're also confusing "zero" with "nothing." - Jef ----- This list is sponsored by AGIRI: http://www.agiri.org/email To unsubscribe or change your options, please go to: http://v2.listbox.com/member/?list_id=303
