id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt work_k2dtibdozrdubcl3qhwdrxqake John D. Norton Ignorance and Indifference* 2008 36 .pdf application/pdf 13095 1139 70 The epistemic state of complete ignorance is not a probability distribution. assign the same, unique ignorance degree of belief to any contingent outcome and notion that ignorance is invariant under certain redescriptions of the outcome space, familiar paradoxes to be discussed here, the notion that indifference over outcomes requires of ignorance is unchanged under disjunctive coarsening or refinement of the outcome space; and outcome space gives us what I call the Principle of Invariance of Ignorance (Section 2.2). given some outcomes over which we are indifferent and thus assign equal probability. principle of indifference by requiring that a state of ignorance over a finite outcome space possibility that this ignorance degree of belief is different for each distinct outcome space. natural expectation that the same ignorance degree of belief can be found in all outcome spaces. so that the ignorance degree of belief in two independent outcome spaces is the same. ./cache/work_k2dtibdozrdubcl3qhwdrxqake.pdf ./txt/work_k2dtibdozrdubcl3qhwdrxqake.txt