Sentence examples for assign credence from inspiring English sources

This will also assign credence 1 to every true answer, and 0 to every false answer, whether partial or complete.

However, it turns out that all of the credence functions that accuracy dominate your credence function (when accuracy is measured by the Brier score) fail to match this evidence: that is, they assign credence other than 0.7 to Heads.

Thus, an agent may not assign credences simply to propositions concerning the way the world is, but to more specific propositions concerning who she is, where she is, or what time it is.

An opinionated credal state is one that assigns credence 1 to just one of the complete answers.

The best credal state to be in, relative to the inquiry Q, is the opinionated state that assigns credence 1 to the complete correct answer.

The response from models of logical learning, proceeds by either obscuring the logical structure of the subject's language from the framework (Garber 1983) or coming up with a new axiomatization of probability that only requires that a fragment of the logical truths be assigned credence 1 (Gaifman 2004).

The coherence that we demand of credences is precisely that they relate to one another in the way that Probabilism demands, so that, for instance, no disjunction is assigned lower credence than is assigned to either of the disjuncts, no proposition is assigned very high credence at the same time that its negation is also assigned very high credence, and so on.

So we can know a priori that if the chances are as we think they are, the undermining future is impossible, and we should assign no credence in the undermining future conditional on the chances being as they are.

And is there anyone who assigns any credence to his claims that he declared martial law to assure free and fair elections?

We say that a local epistemic disutility function that is, recall, an epistemic disutility function defined for individual credences is truth-directed if the disutility that it assigns to a credence in a true proposition increases as the credence decreases, and the disutility it assigns to a credence in a false proposition increases as the credence increases.

In the unknown bias case, by contrast, one arrives at the same assignment in a different way: nothing in your evidence supports one proposition over the other so some "principle of indifference" reasoning suggests that they should be assigned the same credence (see Hájek 2011, for discussion of the principle of indifference).