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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