On Fri, Feb 14, 2020 at 8:59 AM Roger Critchlow <r...@elf.org> wrote:
> > >> When several hypotheses are presented to our mind which we believe to be >> mutually exclusive and exhaustive, but about which we know nothing further, >> we distribute our belief equally among them .... This being admitted as an >> account of the way in which we actually do distribute our belief in simple >> cases, the whole of the subsequent theory follows as a deduction of the way >> in which we must distribute it in complex cases if we would be consistent. > > > >> -- W. F. Donkits. > > > The epigram by W. F. Donkits in this paper is apparently the only place > his name appears on the internet. > The proper attribution is W. F. Donkin, Prof of Astronomy, Oxford May 1851 Article XLVII Phil. Mag. S. $. Vol. 1. No.5. May 1851. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Fishburn_Donkin
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