Categorical Versus Graded Beliefs

Categorical Versus Graded Beliefs

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This essay discusses the difficulty to Shot Glasses reconcile two paradigms about beliefs: the binary or categorical paradigm of yes/no beliefs and the probabilistic paradigm of degrees of belief.The possibility for someone to hold tripping collar. beliefs of both types simultaneously is challenged by the lottery paradox, and more recently by a general impossibility theorem by Dietrich and List.The nature, relevance, and implications of the tension are explained and assessed.