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The idea of assigning probabilities by the principle of group invariance developed in a way parallel to that of the principle of maximum entropy. In both cases the original motivation (at least for me) was that the principle expressed in mathematical terms what seemed intuitively the ‘most honest’ description of a state of knowledge. In neither case was there any connection with frequencies — or indeed any reference to a repetitive ‘random experiment’.
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Rosenkrantz, R.D. (1989). The Well-Posed Problem (1973). In: Rosenkrantz, R.D. (eds) E. T. Jaynes: Papers on Probability, Statistics and Statistical Physics. Synthese Library, vol 158. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-6581-2_8
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