id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt work_6o36mv7viva47eigh6auzoruqe Roman Frigg Chance in Boltzmannian Statistical Mechanics 2008 15 .pdf application/pdf 6347 639 68 interpret probabilities in statistical mechanics as Humean chances in Every system assigns probabilities to certain courses of history, among them the actual course; the fit of the system is measured by the probability that it assigns to the actual course of history, i.e. by how likely it regards things that actually introducing probabilities via initial conditions solves the problem: What we are now expected to calculate is the probability of 'being in set B at time t' given the system's macro history. the measure the expression for the conditional probability in PHSP The fit of a theory is measured in terms of the probability that it question would be to simply use Equation 1 to calculate the probability of a macro state at each instant of time and then multiply them The fit of system is measured by the probability not the best system and therefore PHSP probabilities cannot be interpreted as Humean chances. ./cache/work_6o36mv7viva47eigh6auzoruqe.pdf ./txt/work_6o36mv7viva47eigh6auzoruqe.txt