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Conceived in a pre-field-theoretic era, the Bayesian axiomatization of conditional probabilities disregards the spacetime propagation of causality as expressed by the transition probabilities of physics. We show that the conditionality concept is indeed implied in the latter, and make this explicit by redefining conditionals. A Landé style “correspondence” exists between this scheme and the Born-Jordan one of quantum mechanics. Relativistic and spacetime reversal invariance of the formalism is “manifest”.
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De Beauregard, O.C. (1993). Intersubjectivity, Relativistic Covariance, and Conditionals (A New Axiomatization). In: Mohammad-Djafari, A., Demoment, G. (eds) Maximum Entropy and Bayesian Methods. Fundamental Theories of Physics, vol 53. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-2217-9_1
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