A Structural Justification of Probabilism: From Partition Invariance to Subjective Probability

Philosophy of Science 88 (2):341-365 (2021)
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A new justification of probabilism is developed that pays close attention to the structure of the underlying space of possibilities. Its central assumption is that rational numerical degrees of bel...

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Hannes Leitgeb
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Formal Representations of Belief.Franz Huber - 2008 - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.

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