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    Challenges→Liberal Bayesianism, by permitting non-rule-based revision of prior probabilities, avoids van Fraassen's Dutch Book objection

    If prior revision is permitted without any normative constraint, Liberal Bayesianism collapses into permissivism, undermining the very framework that makes Bayesian epistemology action-guiding.

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    Action-guiding(as used in ethics)
    Capable of actually helping someone decide what to do in a real situation, rather than being purely theoretical.
    Bayesian epistemology(in philosophy of knowledge)
    A theory of knowledge that uses probability and math to explain how people should update their beliefs when they get new information.
    Prior revision(in epistemology and Bayesian reasoning)
    Changing your beliefs or starting assumptions after you've already made them, rather than sticking with your original position.
    epistemology(Contrasted with purely descriptive scientific inquiry)
    A normative enterprise that tells us how we ought to reason from evidence and how we ought to justify our beliefs, as distinct from merely describing how we do reason or justify beliefs
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    (Contrasted with orthodox Bayesianism; acknowledged to leave rationality operating without clear rules)
    An approach that permits rational revision of prior probabilities in a non-rule-based fashion, allowing analogical arguments to shift opinion about already-existing hypotheses without new evidence
    normative constraint(Used to evaluate whether a theory of motivating reasons is adequate)
    The requirement that the reasons for which we act be good (normative) reasons.
    permissivism(epistemology of disagreement)
    The view that the same set of evidence can license different doxastic attitudes toward a proposition

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