An existence theorem for the logic of decision

Philosophy of Science 67 (3):17 (2000)
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In this paper I discuss some of the mathematics behind an often quoted existence theorem from Richard Jeffrey's The Logic of Decision (Jeffrey 1990) in order to pose several new questions about the meaning and value of that mathematics for decision theory

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