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Full Idea
Epistemological probability is torn between Keynes etc saying it depends on the strength of logical implication, and Ramsey etc saying it is personal judgement which is subject to strong rules of internal coherence.
Gist of Idea
Epistemological probability based either on logical implications or coherent judgments
Source
Ian Hacking (The Emergence of Probability [1975], Ch.2)
Book Ref
Hacking,Ian: 'The Emergence of Probability' [CUP 1975], p.14
A Reaction
See Idea 7449 for epistemological probability. My immediate intuition is that the Ramsey approach sounds much more plausible. In real life there are too many fine-grained particulars involved for straight implication to settle a probability.
Related Idea
Idea 7449 Epistemological probability based either on logical implications or coherent judgments [Hacking]