That the Same Mathematical Model Applies in Epistemology

Abstract

We seek to show that the mathematical model which applies in regard to the committee and the choice-making of the individual and the individual’s reckoning of probability, has some implication also in the theory of knowledge. The same mathematical model might provide a frame of reference, setting out the common element in the various theories of knowledge, the mode of reasoning which they share.

Black’s objective in this paper is to argue that the mathematical model which applies to the committee and the choice-making of the individual and the individual’s reckoning of probability has some implications also in the theory of knowledge. Specifically, he argues that a single model of the individual’s act of valuing or act of reckoning probability as in the committee would also describe the various aspects of the working of the human mind. He seeks to show how a particular system of logic may be used as an instrument in the exposition of such theories.