Probability All The Way Up

David Atkinson*, Jeanne Peijnenburg

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Abstract

Richard Jeffrey's radical probabilism ('probability all the way down') is augmented by the claim that probability cannot be turned into certainty, except by data that logically exclude all alternatives. Once we start being uncertain, no amount of updating will free us from the treadmill of uncertainty. This claim is cast first in objectivist and then in subjectivist terms.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)187-197
Number of pages11
JournalSynthese
Volume153
Issue number2
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Nov-2006

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