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A Simultaneous Axiomatization of Utility and Subjective Probability

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 March 2022

Ethan D. Bolker
Ethan D. Bolker*
Affiliation:
Bryn Mawr College
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Abstract

This paper contributes to the mathematical foundations of the model for utility theory developed by Richard Jeffrey in The Logic of Decision [5]. In it I discuss the relationship of Jeffrey's to classical models, state and interpret an existence theorem for numerical utilities and subjective probabilities and restate a theorem on their uniqueness.

Type
Research Article
Information
Philosophy of Science , Volume 34 , Issue 4 , December 1967 , pp. 333 - 340
Copyright
Copyright © Philosophy of Science Association 1967

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