It doesn’t have to have a single meaning. Objective probability and subjective probability can co-exist, and if you are just trying to calculate a probability, you don’t have to worry about the metaphysics.
I’m fine with something being subjective, but what I’m getting at is more like: Is there something we can agree on about which we are expressing a subjective view?
So my point is still: What is that thing? I think yes I actually am trying to push proponents of this view down to the metaphysics—If they say “there’s a 40% chance that it will rain tomorrow”, I want to know things like what it is that they are attributing 40%-ness to. And what it means to say that that thing “has probability 40%”. That’s why I fixated on that sentence in particular because it’s the closest thing I could find to an actual definition of subjective probability in this post.
It doesn’t have to have a single meaning. Objective probability and subjective probability can co-exist, and if you are just trying to calculate a probability, you don’t have to worry about the metaphysics.
We might be using “meaning” differently then!
I’m fine with something being subjective, but what I’m getting at is more like: Is there something we can agree on about which we are expressing a subjective view?
Sure, if we are observing the same things and ignorant about the same the things. Subjective doesn’t mean necessarily different.
So my point is still: What is that thing? I think yes I actually am trying to push proponents of this view down to the metaphysics—If they say “there’s a 40% chance that it will rain tomorrow”, I want to know things like what it is that they are attributing 40%-ness to. And what it means to say that that thing “has probability 40%”. That’s why I fixated on that sentence in particular because it’s the closest thing I could find to an actual definition of subjective probability in this post.
Which view? Subjective probability? Subjective probability is a credence, a level of belief.