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No. They believe you can measure an infinite number of trials (say # of heads vs tails) and whatever ratio you get is the probability of heads.

However it's problematic because you can measure a million coin flips and get heads every time. It's not possible to actually measure an infinite number of trials - you need to imagine it.




This is just silly, nobody in their right mind would believe they could do something “an infinite number” of times.


If you don’t do an infinite number of trials then you can’t be sure your frequencies match the real probability.




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