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Yes, my previous criticism was directed more towards the confusing use of notation with respect to expectation values. It is clearer to condition expe...
May 26, 2023 at 16:41
I think you're conflating two different expectations. I think your post should read : Let y be the value of the chosen envelope and z be the value of ...
May 26, 2023 at 16:03
MacTaggart's remarks concerning the A and B series are relevant here. The premises of the SB paradox are tenseless and so refer only to the B series ,...
May 25, 2023 at 10:29
Her "mental state" M refers to her epistemic state upon waking. In the context of repeated trials, it would include her knowledge of previous trials. ...
May 24, 2023 at 07:48
In my view : Subjective Idealism and solipsism aren't ideas, but a tautological understanding that the meaning of all propositions is ultimately reduc...
May 23, 2023 at 11:01
Here's another analysis that only refers to credences , i.e subjective probabilities referring to the mental state of a believing agent - as opposed t...
May 23, 2023 at 09:14
Since you're an R user, you might find it interesting to define a model in RStan, using different choices for the prior P(S) for the smallest amount S...
May 22, 2023 at 10:36
Unless additional premises are included in the problem, I cannot tell the difference between how I phrased the question and your phrasing of the quest...
May 22, 2023 at 08:18
Yes, we're in full agreement. By "non-informative" I was referring to the distributional conditions of both uniformity of probability mass and of infi...
May 21, 2023 at 08:41
Have you ever tried experimenting with psychedelics? You might be suffering from a biologically rare type of depression that isn't treatable by usual ...
May 20, 2023 at 08:48
It depends on what interpretation of probability you are appealing to. For those of us who reject Laplace's principle of indifference, the answer is t...
May 19, 2023 at 18:53
I'll agree for sake of argument . I think the problem is how we are fitting our shared understanding of the problem to probability calculus. In my pre...
May 19, 2023 at 18:12
That is flat out contradicted by the switching argument. Furthermore, without the premise of knowing the value of one of the envelopes, the paradox di...
May 19, 2023 at 17:21
The paradox doesn't apply in that scenario, since the values of both envelopes are given. To my understanding , the paradox requires, 1) Knowledge of ...
May 19, 2023 at 17:07
The switching argument begs to differ : " 1. Denote by A the amount in the player's selected envelope." The argument's computed expectation value of (...
May 19, 2023 at 16:19
Thanks. The premises of the Sleeping Beauty, at least in some popular incarnations of the problem, specify an experimental design, but they don't spec...
May 19, 2023 at 15:30
Always start by writing down the probability of everything : Variables : C = Tossed coin (Binary variable in {head, tail} ) D = Awoken Day (Binary var...
May 19, 2023 at 14:56
Again, that's an additional subjective premise that isn't objectively implied by the 'physics' of the two-envelope premise. Nevertheless we can assume...
May 17, 2023 at 11:41
That expression is used to represent the same set of initial assumptions, but is less explicit with regards to its premises, such as the fact that som...
May 17, 2023 at 10:39
I would say that is a potential cause of the paradox, but isn't the paradox itself. The paradox is the fact that the switching argument consists of a ...
May 17, 2023 at 09:47
Relative to your use of probabilities, how do you distinguish knowing that an outcome has probability 1/2 from not knowing the likelihood of an outcom...
May 16, 2023 at 17:06
In my view , epistemic probabilities are derived from causal knowledge or assumptions on the basis abductive reasoning and repeated trials. One cannot...
May 16, 2023 at 16:57
By "meaningful probabilities" i am referring to epistemically meaningful probabilities that quantify how the real world is expected to behave on the b...
May 16, 2023 at 16:23
Our conclusions might agree. I am saying that only the statements 1,3 4 and 5 are valid in the "switching argument". For any prior probability distrib...
May 16, 2023 at 15:01
An optimal decision doesn't exist on the basis of the information provided, because the premises fail to specify a well-posed problem : Let P ( r | x ...
May 16, 2023 at 11:27
Deflationism, that rejects representational accounts of semantics , shares much in common with subjective idealism and logical positivism that both co...
May 10, 2023 at 08:38
Putting it cynically, your proposition and methodology of divine revelation isn't qualitatively different to the thoughts of the average physicist, wh...
May 09, 2023 at 08:17
So what is your definition of unconsciousness? Is it a pure postulate, or something that reduces to empirical criteria?
May 08, 2023 at 13:10
We can take the hard-problem in it's broadest sense, as asking what grounds the existence of first-personal phenomenological criteria that are used to...
May 08, 2023 at 11:34
By definition, there does not exist empirical criteria for asserting self-unconsciousness in the present. So the proposition "I am presently unconscio...
May 08, 2023 at 10:19
Consider what it would mean to say that there is no experiential dimension. Unless that possibility is conceivable, then the hard problem isn't concei...
May 08, 2023 at 08:58
You are asking basic questions that concern the topic of "Denotational Semantics", which use partially ordered sets (more specifically, Scott Domains)...
May 07, 2023 at 22:23
In mathematics, one has to distinguish intensional definitions from extensional interpretations. The former refers to analytic tautologies of an assum...
May 04, 2023 at 08:51
The premise of a shared reality is incompatible with the premise of non-representational perceptual access for all. For if I judge my own perception o...
May 03, 2023 at 10:54
Constructively speaking, there's nothing wrong with your identification of real numbers with "infinite" paths, i.e. the non-wellfounded sets known as ...
April 28, 2023 at 17:06
That concepts are norms isn't the same as saying that concepts are public. These are two distinct semantic claims. I have only had a precursory glance...
April 21, 2023 at 16:04
Whenever I understand myself to be seeing the "same" object as a someone else, I am not making a literal comparison of mine and their experiences, nor...
April 21, 2023 at 14:35
Given that society rarely agrees upon anything and constantly changes its mind, not to mention the ever-changing customs of isolated Robinson Crusoes ...
April 21, 2023 at 11:57
Putting aside what privacy means, there are two very distinct ways of interpreting that claim. A. Private Language is False. This is a semantic claim ...
April 21, 2023 at 10:52
That's odd, because my attacks on conventionalism are precisely an attack on representationalism, including the idea that conventions tell us about wh...
April 21, 2023 at 10:09
But do people really share the same belief objects whether agreeing or disagreeing about the truth of a proposition? For how can linguistic convention...
April 21, 2023 at 09:17
Ultimately, epistemic agreements and disagreements rest upon assumptions as to what speakers means by their words: Doesn't it strike you as odd, the a...
April 18, 2023 at 15:01
Are you implying that a public language must be decipherable? What about encryption? When the public cannot agree on a linguistic convention, as is so...
April 17, 2023 at 12:45
Video games occasionally have procedurally generated worlds that are generated dynamically on-the-fly in response to the player's actions. These games...
April 16, 2023 at 16:21
And why not?
April 16, 2023 at 12:33
Wasn't Spinoza an idealist in all but name? At the very least, isn't his metaphysics compatible with "being is perception"? I don't see how matter as ...
April 13, 2023 at 14:30
Well yes, one might take it to be analytically true that a prediction is future-referring, meaning that skepticism regarding the future-contingency of...
April 07, 2023 at 11:16
So in your view, what makes a proposition future-contingent? Suppose that a person looks at the sky and says A. "There are ominous dark-clouds in the ...
April 07, 2023 at 10:05
Well, certainly I can accept that the word "future" has sense to you, as it does to me, but one can dispute that the word has reference beyond the imm...
April 07, 2023 at 08:17
I can only interpret you as referring to something, in relation to an understanding of what your referring consists of. If my experience is private in...
April 06, 2023 at 15:55