83 - Barry Loewer: Probability, Laws of Nature, and Statistical Mechanics
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The Meaning of Probability
Boltzmann introduced a measure over the set of micro-states and it's the simplest measure you could think of. Then we're going to interpret that as a probability measure. What's the meaning of probability? Well, it's the one I told you that's given out of Lewis's metaphysics of probability. Now put all that together. We have this kind of practice, a package, a physical theory of the micro and macro-physical world. Together with a philosophical account, our philosophical interpretation of the main ingredients of that theory. It might have to make changes in other theories, but that's in the learning mechanics, that's what it is.
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