Thomas comments on The Strong Occam's Razor - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Thomas 11 November 2010 07:21:29PM *  3 points [-]

Is the Hulatioamiltonian formulation of classical mechanics apriori more probable than the Lagrangian formn?

They are both derivable from the same source, Newtonian mechanics plus the ZF Set theory. They are equivalent and therefore equally probable.

The shortest possible version of them all - mutually equivalent theories - is the measure how (equally) probable are they.