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    Challenges→Continuous probability distributions require a restriction to countable additivity rather than full additivity

    The alleged violation of full additivity presupposes that uncountable sums must behave like countable ones, but this conflates two distinct mathematical regimes with different convergence properties.

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    Conflates(in argumentation and logic)
    Treats two different things as if they're the same thing, or mixes them up in a way that causes confusion.
    Convergence properties(as used in mathematics)
    The rules that determine whether adding up an infinite sequence of numbers will eventually settle on a specific answer or keep growing forever.
    Countable(as describing the size of these unintended models)
    Able to be listed or matched up with the counting numbers (1, 2, 3...), even if the list is infinite; basically, not too large or weird to count in principle.
    Mathematical regimes(as used in mathematics and philosophy)
    Distinct systems or sets of rules in mathematics that work differently from each other, like how the rules for counting whole numbers differ from the rules for measuring continuous quantities.

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    additivity(Kolmogorov Axiom; breaks down at subatomic/quantum level)
    A property shared between probability measures and the concept of information, which holds at the macroscopic level but loses validity at the subatomic level in favor of a more subtle notion
    uncountable(Examples include the real numbers and the power set of the natural numbers.)
    An infinite set that cannot be put into one-to-one correspondence with the natural numbers.

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