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By considering situations of partially resolving uncertainty, a one-to-one correspondence between belief functions and coherent betting systems à la de Finetti is shown to exist.
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Jaffray, JY. Coherent bets under partially resolving uncertainty and belief functions. Theor Decis 26, 99–105 (1989). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00159221
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