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For me, reading the first chapter of Probability Theory by Jaynes showed me that what thus far had only been a vague intuition of mine (that neither what Yvain calls Aristotelianism nor what Yvain calls Anton-Wilsonism were the full story) actually had a rigorous quantitative form that can be derived mathematically from a few entirely reasonable desiderata, which did put it on a much more solid ground in my mind.