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    On the Best Systems framework, measures over cosmological... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→Justifying measures on sets of spacetime models as measures of objective chance in a cosmological setting is especially difficult.

    On the Best Systems framework, measures over cosmological models can earn chance-status by featuring in the simplest, strongest systematization of the total history.

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    • 1.The Best Systems framework successfully grounds objective chance in what actually exists: the unified laws and patterns of our universe.
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    • 2.Simplicity and strength are rational criteria for theory selection; measures earning chance-status through them inherit epistemic legitimacy.
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    • 3.This approach avoids the metaphysical cost of positing irreducible fundamental chances independent of any systematizing framework.
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    • 1.Simplicity and strength are pragmatic virtues, not truth-tracking properties; a simple false theory is still false.
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    • 2.Chance appears in quantum mechanics fundamentally, not derivatively; grounding it in systematization seems metaphysically backwards.
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    • 3.Different observers may prefer different systematizations; this framework threatens to make chance objective-in-name only, observer-relative in fact.
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