Yes! From the Outside View, this is exactly what I would expect substantial, well-researched criticism to look like. Appears very scientific, contains plenty of references, is peer-reviewed and published in “Journal of Statistical Physics” and has 29 citations.
Friedman and Shimonys criticism of MAXENT is in stark contrast to David Chapmans criticism of “Probability Theory”.
FWIW I think that Davud Chapman’s criticism is correct as far as it goes, but I don’t think that it’s very damning. Propositional logic is indeed a “logic” and it’s worthwhile enough for probability theory to extend it. Trying to look at predicate logic probabilisticly would be interesting but it’s not necessary.
Yes! From the Outside View, this is exactly what I would expect substantial, well-researched criticism to look like. Appears very scientific, contains plenty of references, is peer-reviewed and published in “Journal of Statistical Physics” and has 29 citations.
Friedman and Shimonys criticism of MAXENT is in stark contrast to David Chapmans criticism of “Probability Theory”.
FWIW I think that Davud Chapman’s criticism is correct as far as it goes, but I don’t think that it’s very damning. Propositional logic is indeed a “logic” and it’s worthwhile enough for probability theory to extend it. Trying to look at predicate logic probabilisticly would be interesting but it’s not necessary.
Chapman wasn’t even attempting to write an original paper, and in fact points out early on that he is repeating well known (outside LW) facts.