Marcos Sousa

Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
Federal University of Minas Gerais
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    On Probability as a Linguistic Model
    Https://Ebl2025.Ime.Usp.Br/Home/Program. 2025.
    This talk explores the thesis that probability is best understood as a theoretical-linguistic model (TLM), rather than as a subjective, ontological, or frequentist theory. Gillies [2006] discusses five main interpretations of probability and defends three: subjective theory (ST), where probability is an individual degree of belief (DB); propensity theory (PT), where probability is a tendency in repeatable conditions; and inter subjective theory (IST), where probability reflects social consensus.…Read more
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    Probabilidade
    Editora PPGFil. 2025.
    Tradução por Marcos Sousa do livro Wahrscheinlichkeit de Gerhard Schurz. Resumo: Como o conhecimento é, em grande parte, incerto, a aplicação da probabilidade torna-se indispensável, pois lida com a incerteza. A teoria evoluiu desde os jogos de azar até as aplicações científicas modernas. Os axiomas de Kolmogorov fundamentam a representação algébrica da probabilidade, que pode ser interpretada, nesta obra, de forma dualista: epistêmica e estatística. Para Schurz, a probabilidade epistêmica expre…Read more
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    Background: Clinical reasoning is at the core of medical practice and entangled in a conceptual confusion. The duality theory in probability allows to evaluate its objective and subjective aspects. Objectives: To conduct a systematic review of the literature about clinical reasoning in decision making in medical education and to propose a "reasoning based on the Bayesian rule" (RBBR). Methods: A systematic review on PubMed was conducted (until February 27, 2022), following a strict methodology, …Read more