principle of indifference
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principle of indifference
n (Philosophy) the principle that, in the absence of any reason to expect one event rather than another, all the possible events should be assigned the same probability. See
mathematical probability Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014
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In Part III, Olsson investigates whether this verdict might change using the
Principle of Indifference as advocated by Bovens, Fitelson, Hartmann, and Snyder.
The computational argument depends on successive events being statistically independent and the
principle of indifference, but in the biological situation these assumptions do not hold.
1 The
Principle of Indifference in a subjective context
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