Probability Theory: Philosophy, Recent History and Relations to Science

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Synthese Library, Kluwer (2001)
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This book sheds light on some recent discussions of the problems in probability theory and their history, analysing their philosophical and mathematical significance, and the role pf mathematical probability theory in other sciences.

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Remarks on the theory of conditional probability: Some issues of finite versus countable additivity.Teddy Seidenfeld

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