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Hidden Variables and the Propensity Theory of Probability

The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, 1979
Let S, be the sentence: 'The probability of this coin landing heads is 2.' Propensity theorists of probability hold that S, reports an objective property of the world rather than the subjective partial knowledge and partial ignorance of the speaker. One propensity theorist (Popper1) holds that S, reports a property of each single toss (performed in ...
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The Propensity Interpretation of Probability: A Re-evaluation

Erkenntnis, 2015
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Subjective Probability as Sampling Propensity

Review of Philosophy and Psychology, 2015
Subjective probability plays an increasingly important role in many fields concerned with human cognition and behavior. Yet there have been significant criticisms of the idea that probabilities could actually be represented in the mind. This paper presents and elaborates a view of subjective probability as a kind of sampling propensity associated with ...
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Are some Propensities Probabilities?

1973
This paper concerns presuppositions of the two extant propensity theories of probability: Peirce’s and Popper’s. Of course the frequency theory, the logical theory, and the subjective theory are more popular. By contrast with these theories, propensity theory digs deeply below the phenomenal surface, resembling in this respect what Bunge calls ...
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A Propensity Interpretation for Quantum Probabilities

The Philosophical Quarterly, 1989
interpreted as single-case propensities, rather than as relative frequencies or multi-case propensities (Hacking). I then argue against Popper's, and in favour of a modified version of Mellor's single-case propensity interpretation for the probabilities of QT. This interpretation enables a derivation of the relation between the probabilities of quantum
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Propensity and probability in quantum mechanics

Physics Letters A, 1986
Abstract We give in this letter an operational definition of quantum mechanical propensity based on a realistic measuring process. We show that such a propensity can be defined by a state to be measured, a filter or a reference state and a group of possible “motions” of such filter.
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Propensity and Probability in Depositional Facies Analysis and Modeling

Mathematical Geosciences, 2009
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Dynamic Rationality: Propensity, Probability, and Credence

1988
Since the time of Bishop Butler we have known that probability is the very guide of life — at least it should be if we are to behave rationally. The trouble is that we have had an extraordinarily difficult time trying to figure out what kind of thing — or things — probability is.
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Popper’s Propensities: An Ontological Interpretation of Probability

1989
“There is no novel idea in modern and contemporary philosophy which could not ultimately be traced to ancient Greece”.
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Statistical Mechanics and the Propensity Interpretation of Probability

2001
One of the most fascinating problems for the philosopher posed by the corpus of statistical physics is the issue of the consistency problem which arises in both the classical and the quantum contexts. It arises starkly in classical statistical physics, there it is the issue of precisely how it is possible to add probabilistic assumptions to treat of an
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