The traditional interpretation of probability is known as frequentist probability. Under this interpretation, items have some intrinsic “quality” of being some % likely to do one thing vs. another. For example, a coin has a fundamental probabilistic essence of being 50% likely to come up heads when flipped.
Is this right? I would have said that what you describe is a more like the classical, logical view of probability, which isn’t the same as the frequentist view. Even the wiki page you’ve linked seems to disagree with what you’ve written, i.e. it describes the frequentist view in the standard way of being about relative frequencies in the long-run. So it isn’t a coin having intrinsic “50%-ness”; you actually need the construction of the repeated experiment in order to define the probability.
Is this right? I would have said that what you describe is a more like the classical, logical view of probability, which isn’t the same as the frequentist view. Even the wiki page you’ve linked seems to disagree with what you’ve written, i.e. it describes the frequentist view in the standard way of being about relative frequencies in the long-run. So it isn’t a coin having intrinsic “50%-ness”; you actually need the construction of the repeated experiment in order to define the probability.
Sounds like the propensity interpretation of probability.
Yeah that was a mistake, I mixed frequentism and propensity together.