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Discussion: On Harold Jeffreys' Axioms

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 April 2022

S. Noorbaloochi
S. Noorbaloochi*
Affiliation:
Statistics Department Ahwaz University Iran
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Abstract

It is argued that models of H. Jeffreys' axioms of probability (Jeffreys [1939] 1967) are not monotone even with I. J. Good's proposed modification (Good 1950). Hence the additivity axiom seems essential to a theory of probability as it is with Kolmogorov's system (Kolmogorov 1950).

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Philosophy of Science , Volume 55 , Issue 3 , September 1988 , pp. 448 - 452
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Copyright © 1988 by the Philosophy of Science Association

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