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Necessary and sufficient conditions for existence of a unique measure strictly agreeing with a qualitative probability ordering

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  1. Stanford University, Palo Alto, USA

    Patrick Suppes & Mario Zanotti

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The ideas and results contained in this article were first presented at the Stanford Seminar on Foundations of Probability, Winter Quarter, 1976. We have benefited considerably from comments and criticisms of several members of the seminar, especially Thomas Cover.

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Suppes, P., Zanotti, M. Necessary and sufficient conditions for existence of a unique measure strictly agreeing with a qualitative probability ordering. J Philos Logic 5, 431–438 (1976). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00649401

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