Herzberg, Frederik: Internal laws of probability, generalized likelihoods and Lewis' infinitesimal chances-A response to Adam Elga. In: The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science. Jg.58 H. 1. 2007, S. 25-43
Inhalt
- Elga's critique of the infinitesimal approach to the zero-fit problem
- Two examples for infinitesimal solutions to the zero-fit problem
- Mathematical modelling in nonstandard universes?
- Are nonstandard models unnatural?
- Likelihoods and densities
- Internal probability measures and the Loeb measure construction
- The (countable) coin tossing sequence revisited
- Solution to the zero-fit problem for a finite-state model without memory
- An additional note on ``Integrating over densities''
- Well-defined continuous versions of density functions