Endo, I think you are making things more confusing by combining issues of Bayesianism with issues of utility. It might help to keep them more separate or to be clear when one is talking about one, the other, or some hybrid.
I use the term Bayesianism to include utility because (a) they are connected and (b) a philosophy of probabilities as abstract mathematical constructs with no applications doesn’t seem complete; it needs an explanation of why those specific objects are studied. How do you think that any of this caused or could cause confusion?
Well, it empirically seems to be causing confusion. See curi’s remarks about the ice cream example. Also, one doesn’t need Bayesianism to include utility and that isn’t standard (although it is true that they do go very well together).
Endo, I think you are making things more confusing by combining issues of Bayesianism with issues of utility. It might help to keep them more separate or to be clear when one is talking about one, the other, or some hybrid.
I use the term Bayesianism to include utility because (a) they are connected and (b) a philosophy of probabilities as abstract mathematical constructs with no applications doesn’t seem complete; it needs an explanation of why those specific objects are studied. How do you think that any of this caused or could cause confusion?
Well, it empirically seems to be causing confusion. See curi’s remarks about the ice cream example. Also, one doesn’t need Bayesianism to include utility and that isn’t standard (although it is true that they do go very well together).
Yes I see what you mean.
I think it goes a bit beyond this. Utility considerations motivate the choice of definitions. I acknowledge that they are distinct things, though.