"These may be thought to be in the world, but they may also be abstractions...or they may fail to exist: They may be interesting fictions."

From responses to commentaries on the 2024 book "Inference and Representation" by @msuarez.bsky.social

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Thank you for the wonderful commentary!

The below link should work, but let me know if you can't get access and I'll DM you the author's copy!

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Hearty thanks to Oscar Westerblad @oscarw.bsky.social, Chiara Ambrosio and Alexander Bird for their wonderful commentaries!

On the second day, we continued in full swing with a long, thoughtful lecture about inferential conceptions of representation given by @msuarez.bsky.social

Indeed, that's quite a connection...

Good in that way and female representation, but a really striking under-representation of southern Europe. The omnipotent north-south divide finally caught up with us? See you in a bit :-)!

You're welcome :-). Good luck!

Yes, please. I never learnt how to do that! DM if you'd like to explain, hearty thanks

I have the volume. I'm looking for the separate offprint / pdf of my chapter only.

I got "distinction" overall but can't recall what the specific mark of the dissertation was. I recall my strongest mark was in Donald Gillies' probability module - and we kept in touch ever since...

And I am really quite amazed how well the stuff has aged. It is essentially apt in the context of today's debates around the "adoption problem".

Yes, the pages had taken a yellowish / cartoonish tone which was hilariously apposite, but all the material was intact and clearly readable. @jalejandrofdezc.bsky.social was critically helpful with the editorial work (besides being a wonderful source of encouragement) and deserves enourmous thanks.

@lastpositivist.bsky.social the people's demand has been heeded.

Wow, so interesting... Looking forward to reading this

Thanks for the acknowledgement in that final footnote. It's rare that people are so careful with their intellectual debts (I always try to be).

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