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by taejo 3536 days ago
That's true, but if we assume the probabilities of "Earth orbits Sun" and "Sun orbits Earth" we still get the correct conditional probabilities under the condition "either the Sun orbits the Earth or the Earth orbits the Sun", and the ratio between the two conditional probabilities is the same as the ratio between the absolute probabilities. So we can still decide which hypothesis is better, and by how much.