Scaled Boolean algebras

DOI10.1016/S0196-8858(02)00011-8zbMATH Open1017.60008arXivmath/0203249OpenAlexW2053442967MaRDI QIDQ1865263FDOQ1865263

Authors: Michael Hardy 

Publication date: 26 March 2003

Published in: Advances in Applied Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Scaled Boolean algebras are a category of mathematical objects that arose from attempts to understand why the conventional rules of probability should hold when probabilities are construed, not as frequencies or proportions or the like, but rather as degrees of belief in uncertain propositions. This paper separates the study of these objects from that not-entirely-mathematical problem that motivated them. That motivating problem is explicated in the first section, and the application of scaled Boolean algebras to it is explained in the last section. The intermediate sections deal only with the mathematics. It is hoped that this isolation of the mathematics from the motivating problem makes the mathematics clearer.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0203249

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zbMATH Keywords

qualitative probabilityepistemic probability

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Probabilistic measure theory (60A10)

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