Coherence of de Finetti coherence

Synthese 194 (10):4055-4063 (2017)
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We prove that de Finetti coherence is preserved under taking products of coherent books on two sets of independent events. This establishes a desirable closure property of coherence: were it not the case it would raise a question mark over the utility of de Finetti’s notion of coherence.

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10.1007/s11229-016-1126-9

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Strict coherence on many-valued events.Tommaso Flaminio, Hykel Hosni & Franco Montagna - 2018 - Journal of Symbolic Logic 83 (1):55-69.

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