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    Any application of probability under the frequentist inte... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→The application of probability concepts does not involve any presuppositions about the external world or the law of causality.

    Any application of probability under the frequentist interpretation thus presupposes stable, law-governed regularities in nature.

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    • 1.Frequentist probability requires repeated trials under identical conditions to converge to stable frequencies, which only makes sense if nature exhibits consistent regularities.
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    • 2.Without assumption of law-governed stability, past frequency data provides no rational basis for predicting future outcomes or assigning probability values.
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    • 3.Empirical science has successfully applied frequentist methods only in domains where natural laws appear stable, suggesting this presupposition is necessary for the framework's applicability.
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    • 1.Frequentist probability can apply to finite, non-repeating events (elections, trials) without requiring eternal natural laws, only consistency within a bounded context.
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    • 2.The claim conflates a practical working assumption with a logical presupposition; we can use frequentist methods provisionally without believing in metaphysical stability.
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    • 3.Chaotic and quantum systems show that useful frequentist probabilities can emerge even where microscopic determinism or laws don't hold in classical senses.
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