A simpler and more realistic subjective decision theory

DOI10.1007/S11229-017-1594-6MaRDI QIDQ2218702zbMATH OpenOpenAlexDBLPWikidataFDO

Authors Haim Gaifman, Yang Liu

Publication date 18 January 2021

Published in Synthese (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-017-1594-6

zbMATH Keywords

Boolean algebrasubjective probabilityexpected utilitiespartition treerealistic decision theorySavage postulates

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Decision theory (91B06) General considerations in statistical decision theory (62C05)

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