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Foresight: Its Logical Laws, Its Subjective Sources

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The word “equivalent” of the original has been translated throughout as “exchangeable.” The original term (used also by Khinchin) and even the term “symmetric” (used by Savage and Hewitt) appear to admit ambiguity. The word “exchangeable,” proposed by Fréchet, seems expressive and unambiguous and has been adopted and recommended by most authors, including de Finetti.

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    Samuel Kotz

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de Finetti, B. (1992). Foresight: Its Logical Laws, Its Subjective Sources. In: Kotz, S., Johnson, N.L. (eds) Breakthroughs in Statistics. Springer Series in Statistics. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-0919-5_10

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