id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt work_leumwm4wsfbcdfm424ckeqwe7m Yann Benétreau-Dupin Blurring Out Cosmic Puzzles 2015 20 .pdf application/pdf 5553 467 63 The Doomsday paradox and the appeal to anthropic bounds to solve the cosmological constant problem are two examples of puzzles of probabilistic confirmation. assume that the prior probability distribution is constant within the anthropically allowed dealing with events we are completely ignorant about, one can use an imprecise, Bayesianfriendly framework that better handles ignorance, and avoids the paradoxical, uncomfortable consequences of the Doomsday argument, and better models the limited role anthropic One could hope that a more adequate prior probability distribution—one that better reflects our ignorance and is normalizable—may prevent the conclusion of these cosmic puzzles (especially Gott's Doomsday argument). an imprecise prior credal set with probability distributions that each favors a different Let us see how we can reframe Gott's Doomsday argument with an imprecise prior credence Let us see how such a prior credal set avoids the conclusion of Gott's Doomsday paradox. ./cache/work_leumwm4wsfbcdfm424ckeqwe7m.pdf ./txt/work_leumwm4wsfbcdfm424ckeqwe7m.txt