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Difficulties in the Theory of Personal Probability

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 March 2022

Leonard J. Savage
Leonard J. Savage*
Affiliation:
Yale University
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Extract

We statisticians, with our specific concern for uncertainty, are even more liable than other practical men to encounter philosophy, whether we like it or not. For my part, I like it comparatively well. That is why the honor of opening this session of discussion has come to me, though my background makes my knowledge and idiom somewhat different from your own.

Type
A Panel Discussion of Personal Probability
Information
Philosophy of Science , Volume 34 , Issue 4 , December 1967 , pp. 305 - 310
Copyright
Copyright © Philosophy of Science Association 1967

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Footnotes

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This research was supported in part by the Army, Navy, Air Force, and NASA under a contract administered by the Office of Naval Research.

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