What are degrees of belief?

Studia Logica

Volumn 86, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 183-213

  Eriksson, Lina ^a   Hájek, Alan ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Betting interpretation; Degrees of belief; Dutch book argument; Primitivism; Probabilism; Radical interpretation; Rationality; Representation theorem

Indexed keywords

EID: 34547534742     PISSN: 00393215     EISSN: 15728730     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11225-007-9059-4     Document Type: Article

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