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by zomglings 2024 days ago
The circularity argument for the frequentist interpretation of probabilities seems lazy to me.

The essay argues that the frequentist view of probability is circular because it "reduces probability claims to probability claims".

One can attempt to resolve this apparent circularity by thinking in terms of claims about the mathematical theory of probabilities versus claims about an empirical theory of probability (involving limiting behavior of experiments). Frequentist statistics could possibly be seen as a means of reconciliing these mathematical and empirical theories.

The argument of the essay precludes this kind of interpretation of frequentist statistics without even considering it.