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A recent defense of Jaynes' information-theoretical approach to statistical mechanics is rejected, and an earlier critique of this approach is extended.
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This work was done while the author was a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellow.
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Shimony, A. Comment on the interpretation of inductive probabilities. J Stat Phys 9, 187–191 (1973). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01016847
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01016847