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Probabilities of conditionals - revisited (English)
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This is a neat, crisp demonstration of this theorem: If K is a finite set with cardinality greater than two, F is a field of subsets of K, and P a probability function on F, then there is no binary connective \(\to\) on F such that for all A, C in F, if \(P(A)>0\), then \(P(A\to C)=P(C/A)\). This is a clear and important strengthening of David Lewis' triviality results concerning the hypothesis (often called the Stalnaker hypothesis) that the probability of a conditional should be the conditional probability of the components.
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Bayes
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Stalnaker hypothesis
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probability of a conditional
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conditional probability
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