Probability and Partial Belief

In John Langshaw Austin (ed.), Philosophical Papers. Oxford, England: Clarendon Press. pp. 95-96 (1961)
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This note is a postscript to Ramsey's 'Truth and Probability'. It replaces that article's psychological reading of subjective probability with a reading of it as a consistency condition on the theory that we act to maximise expected utility.

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