id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt work_dotamwforvgo3dp3hiicqiwvya Nicholas Shackel Bertrand's Paradox and the Principle of Indifference* 2007 20 .pdf application/pdf 11968 732 64 speak of the answer to Bertrand's question as the probability of a longer chord. Kinds of ill-posed problem and kinds of solution to Bertrand's paradox. Bertrand's Paradox can undermine the principle of indifference if and only if it is illposed in the primary sense. indifference is supposed to be sufficient for us to solve a determinate probability problem, principle suffices for a unique solution to each problem the paradox does not undermine to be a probability measure of C got from applying the principle of indifference to principle of indifference does determine a unique probability of the longer chord. Marinoff's position is that Bertrand's question confounds distinct problems. well-posed distinct problems to which the principle of indifference can be applied determinate statistically general problem which the principle of indifference is supposed circles, and so any acceptable probability measure on the set of chords must not depend ./cache/work_dotamwforvgo3dp3hiicqiwvya.pdf ./txt/work_dotamwforvgo3dp3hiicqiwvya.txt