{"id":680,"date":"2024-07-10T04:13:30","date_gmt":"2024-07-10T04:13:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2024\/07\/10\/a-difference-between-plausibility-and-probability\/"},"modified":"2024-07-10T04:13:30","modified_gmt":"2024-07-10T04:13:30","slug":"a-difference-between-plausibility-and-probability","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2024\/07\/10\/a-difference-between-plausibility-and-probability\/","title":{"rendered":"A Difference Between Plausibility and Probability"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">The plausibility of a conjunctive proposition is that of the least plausible of its conjuncts. Not so for the probability of a conjunctive proposition.&#0160;<\/span><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">This point is made by Nicholas Rescher in his entry &#39;Plausibility&#39; in the <em>Oxford Companion to Philosophy.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">Exercise for the reader: give examples.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The plausibility of a conjunctive proposition is that of the least plausible of its conjuncts. Not so for the probability of a conjunctive proposition.&#0160;This point is made by Nicholas Rescher in his entry &#39;Plausibility&#39; in the Oxford Companion to Philosophy. Exercise for the reader: give examples.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-logica-docens"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/680","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=680"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/680\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}