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Strict Bayesians emphasize the importance of the evaluation of truth value bearing hypotheses with respect to subjective or credal probability for both practical deliberation and scientific inquiry. According to strict Bayesians, agent X’s credal state B X ,t for hypotheses expressible in language L containing neither modal nor epistemic operators or predicates is representable by a function Q(h; e) from sentences in L to real numbers satisfying the following conditions.
I wish to thank Charles Parsons for having saved me from some errors. In spite of his gentle benevolence, however, I have resisted his efforts to save me from others.
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Levi, I. (1979). Serious Possibility. In: Saarinen, E., Hilpinen, R., Niiniluoto, I., Hintikka, M.P. (eds) Essays in Honour of Jaakko Hintikka. Synthese Library, vol 124. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-9860-5_14
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