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This thinker’s work is used to refute David Hume’s view of miracles in John Earman’s book Hume’s Abject Failure. To critique this thinker, Clark Glymour introduced the “problem of old evidence.” Frank Ramsey and Bruno de Finetti both used Dutch book arguments to show that proponents of this thinker’s system (-5[1])must have a coherent set of beliefs. I. J. Good used this thinker’s work in his solution to the raven paradox, arguing that the observation of a white shoe only slightly alters this school’s namesake “factor.” Proponents of this thinker’s system hold degrees of belief called “credences” and use the principle of (10[1])conditionalization (10[1])to update their priors to posteriors. For 10 points, a school of probability contrasted with frequentism is named for what (10[1])18th-century statistician? ■END■ (10[1])

ANSWER: Thomas Bayes [accept Bayesian school]
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PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Corey SmithKentuckyMTSU49-5
Quentin MotGeorgia Tech AGeodesic10110
Matthew SumanenGeorgia Tech BVanderbilt A10210
Jack ObermanSouth CarolinaVanderbilt B12210
Jack LewisMTSUKentucky12510

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2024 ACF Regionals @ Cornell01/27/2024Y1100%0%0%102.00
2024 ACF Regionals @ JMU01/27/2024Y978%0%11%95.00
2024 ACF Regionals @ Minnesota01/27/2024Y2100%0%0%80.50
2024 ACF Regionals @ Nebraska01/27/2024Y6100%0%0%118.67
2024 ACF Regionals @ Rutgers01/27/2024Y5100%0%0%96.80
2024 ACF Regionals @ Vanderbilt01/27/2024Y4100%0%25%112.50