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This article attempts to develop a conceptual framework for analyzing cognitions by representing them as probability distributions in a space of possible objective states. The author believes that there are several potential advantages of this approach; first, it permits quantitative comparison or combination of the measured beliefs of different individuals or of the beliefs of the same person at different times; and second, the effects of external evidence can be described conveniently as mathematical operations on the existing belief state.
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Thornton B. Roby (1965) studied this question.
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