Countable Additivity and the de Finetti Lottery.

De Finetti would claim that we can make sense of a draw in which each positive integer has equal probability of winning. This requires a uniform probability distribution over the natural numbers, violating countable additivity. Countable additivity thus appears not to be a fundamental constraint on...

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Published in:	British Journal for the Philosophy of Science Vol. 55; no. 2; pp. 301 - 322
Main Author:	Bartha, Paul
Format:	Article
Published:	University of Chicago Press Jun2004
Subjects:	Probability theory Distribution (Probability theory) Lotteries Calculus Integer programming Philosophy of science
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