On the probabilistic convention T

Review of Symbolic Logic 1 (2):218-224 (2008)
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Abstract

We introduce an epistemic theory of truth according to which the same rational degree of belief is assigned to Tr(. It is shown that if epistemic probability measures are only demanded to be finitely additive (but not necessarily σ-additive), then such a theory is consistent even for object languages that contain their own truth predicate. As the proof of this result indicates, the theory can also be interpreted as deriving from a quantitative version of the Revision Theory of Truth

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Hannes Leitgeb
Ludwig Maximilians Universität, München