Unreliable probabilities, risk taking, and decision making

DOI10.1007/BF00486156zbMath0516.62011OpenAlexW4233281713WikidataQ56094949 ScholiaQ56094949MaRDI QIDQ1052759

Peter Gaerdenfors, Nils-Eric Sahlin

Publication date: 1982

Published in: Synthese (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/bf00486156

zbMATH Keywords

risk takingepistemic reliabilityunreliable probabilities

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Bayesian problems; characterization of Bayes procedures (62C10) Foundations and philosophical topics in statistics (62A01) General considerations in statistical decision theory (62C05)

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