Correction: Needed to add "[the idea that]" below.
- Jef

> gts wrote:
> 
> >
> > > This same concept of coherence is the basis of the axioms of
> > > probability...
> >
> > Yes.
> >
> > > ... and the principle of indifference.
> >
> > No.
> >
> > > Understand this underlying concept and you may understand the
> > others.
> >
> > I understand it, Jef. But do you? The principle of indifference
> > is not derived from or implied in any way by De Finetti
> > coherency. De Finetti had no use for the idea. Neither do I.
> 
> That's like saying you have no use for [the idea that] a balance scale
reads
> zero when both pans are empty.
> 
> Oh well, I've had enough of this for now.
> 
> - Jef

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