The paper is probably OCRed.
Re:In Defense of Probability (1985) [pdf]
by mturmon on Tuesday August 08, 2017 @12:19PM
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Good point. The rendering of "sufficient" probably uses the triple-ligature for "ffi", where all 3 characters are merged.
The author, Peter Cheeseman, is a reputable figure and a solid practitioner. I'm sure he's just as annoyed that, on the second page, his own name is misspelled as "Cheesemart" ;-).
People may recognize him as a co-creator of the AutoClass software for Bayesian clustering, which was very popular in the late 1990s - the explanatory paper has 1700 citations.
We can fix it. I have started a git repo for this https://github.com/michaelchristophernewyork/probability
please help clean up if you have time.
Re:In Defense of Probability (1985) [pdf]
by anonymousiam on Tuesday August 08, 2017 @12:53PM
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Author's name is also misspelled in the header on one of the early pages. It's obviously been scanned and OCRed.
"In this paper, it is argued that probability theory, when used correctly, is suffrcient for the task of reasoning under uncertainty."