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Comment author: JoshuaZ 30 December 2014 01:23:20AM *  3 points [-]

Consistency forces you to have a simplicity based prior if you have a counteable set of non-overlapping hypotheses described using some finite collection of symbols (and some other minor conditions to ensure non-pathology). See prior discussion here. See also here for related issues.