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Leeds' Infernal Machine
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 April 2022
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1 This journal, pp. 78–91.
2 Leeds claims (p. 81) that I think of the parameter θ characterizing the urn at hand as having a distribution. This is false; θ has a distribution only if it is construed as a random quantity, and then it has a distribution over a reference class—e.g., some set of urns.
3 Journal of Philosophic Logic 5, 1976, pp. 355–393.