The Courtiers of Confusion: A Reply to Wysocki and Block
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https://doi.org/10.52195/pm.v19i2.821Abstract
Igor Wysocki and Walter Block have offered a critique of my subjective definition for probability. In this article, I offer a detailed exposition of Wysocki and Block’s mistaken critique. I focus on the logical incoherence of their argument, as well as the inconsistency of their argument with Ludwig von Mises’s own ideas about probability. I also describe how Wysocki and Block have built their argument on a mistaken view of what subjectivists believe as well as a mistaken view of what the brothers von Mises held. I thus argue that Wysocki and Block have failed to redeem Ludwig von Mises’s approach to
probability
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