Anthropic Principle in Cosmology
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A brief explanation of the meaning of the anthropic principle – as a prescription for the attribution of a priori probability weighting – is illustrated by various cosmological and local applications, in which the relevant conclusions are contrasted with those that could be obtained from (less plausible) alternative prescriptions such as the vaguer and less restrictive ubiquity principle, or the more sterile and restrictive autocentric principle.
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