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On the limits of comparing subset sizes within
Sylvia Wenmackers
We review and compare five ways of assigning totally ordered sizes to subsets of the natural numbers: cardinality, infinite lottery logic with mirror cardinalities, natural density…
Uniform probability in cosmology
Sylvia Wenmackers
Problems with uniform probabilities on an infinite support show up in contemporary cosmology. This paper focuses on the context of inflation theory, where it complicates the assign…
Degrees of riskiness, falsifiability, and truthlikeness. A neo-Popperian account applicable to probabilistic theories
Leander Vignero, Sylvia Wenmackers
In this paper, we take a fresh look at three Popperian concepts: riskiness, falsifiability, and truthlikeness (or verisimilitude) of scientific hypotheses or theories. First, we ma…
Assigning probabilities to non-Lipschitz mechanical systems
Danny E. P. Vanpoucke, Sylvia Wenmackers
We present a method for assigning probabilities to the solutions of initial value problems that have a Lipschitz singularity. To illustrate the method, we focus on the following to…
Probability of Inconsistencies in Theory Revision: A multi-agent model for updating logically interconnected beliefs under bounded confidence
Sylvia Wenmackers, Danny E. P. Vanpoucke, Igor Douven
We present a model for studying communities of epistemically interacting agents who update their belief states by averaging (in a specified way) the belief states of other agents i…
Models and Simulations in Material Science: Two Cases Without Error Bars
Sylvia Wenmackers, Danny E. P. Vanpoucke
We discuss two research projects in material science in which the results cannot be stated with an estimation of the error: a spectro- scopic ellipsometry study aimed at determinin…
Non-Archimedean Probability
Vieri Benci, Leon Horsten, Sylvia Wenmackers
We propose an alternative approach to probability theory closely related to the framework of numerosity theory: non-Archimedean probability (NAP). In our approach, unlike in classi…