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My question is what does "happiness" rest upon? A probability of what? You need to have an apriori model oh what hapiness is in order to measure it (that is, a theory of mind), which you have not. Verifying your model depends on your model...
You argued that "I believe P with probability 0.53" might be as meaningless as "I am 53% happy". It is a valid response to say, "Setting happiness aside, there actually is a rigorous foundation for quantifying belief—namely, Cox's theorem."
The pb here is that "I believe P" supposes a representation / a model of P. There must be a pre-existing model prior to using Cox's theorem on something. My question is semantic: what does this model lie on? The probabilities you will get will depend on the model you will adopt, and I am pretty sure that there is no definitive model/conception of anything (see the problem of translation analysed by Quine for example).