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Can Uncertainty Be Quantified?
KTH, School of Architecture and the Built Environment (ABE), Philosophy and History, Philosophy.ORCID iD: 0000-0003-0071-3919
2022 (English)In: Perspectives on Science, ISSN 1063-6145, E-ISSN 1530-9274, Vol. 30, no 2, p. 210-236Article in journal (Refereed) Published
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In order to explore the quantifiability and formalizability of uncertainty a wide range of uncertainties are investigated. They are summarized under eight main categories: factual, possibilistic, metadoxastic, agential, interactive, value, structural, and linguistic uncertainty. This includes both classical uncertainty and the uncertainties commonly called great, deep, or radical. For five of the eight types of uncertainty, both quantitative and non-quantitative formalizations are meaningful and available. For one of them (interactive uncertainty), only non-quantitative formalizations seem to be meaningful, and for two (agential and structural uncertainty) neither quantitative nor non-quantitative formalization seems to be a useful approach.

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MIT Press , 2022. Vol. 30, no 2, p. 210-236
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URN: urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-322575DOI: 10.1162/posc_a_00412Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85127604834OAI: oai:DiVA.org:kth-322575DiVA, id: diva2:1721774
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