The semantic and the object conceptions of probability expressions

pp. 388-404

in: Hans Reichenbach, Selected writings 1909–1953, Berlin, Springer, 1978

Abstract

My probability theory has been criticized from a number of different quarters on the grounds that it leaves unanswered the question whether probability is to be conceived of as a syntactic, a semantic, or an object relation. Some of my critics have even attempted to draw the conclusion that my probability logic is untenable. It is my purpose, in this article, to investigate this question more closely and to show that considerations of this nature pose no difficulties for my theory¹.