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by nshepperd 3823 days ago
I have heard of people genuinely saying such a thing. Fortunately, it is nothing but an empty redefinition of the word "probability". In fact, rational degrees of belief in hypotheses do follow the kolmogorov axioms (as shown by eg. Cox's theorem or the VNM theorem), and bayes theorem does therefore apply. Whether or not someone refuses to call that "probability" makes no difference.