In decision theory, economics, and probability theory, the Dutch book arguments are a set of results showing that agents must satisfy the axioms of rational...
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expose you to certain loss through a Dutch book are called coherent. De Finetti is also noted for de Finetti's theorem on exchangeable sequences of random...
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Gödel's incompleteness theorems are two theorems of mathematical logic that are concerned with the limits of provability in formal axiomatic theories...
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These axioms, apart from continuity, are often justified using the Dutch book theorems (whereas continuity is used to set aside lexicographic or infinitesimal...
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cases of this behaviour can be considered rational. However, the Dutch book theorems show that this comes at a major cost of internal coherence, such...
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Bayesian epistemology (section Dutch books)
method in contrast to traditional epistemology is that its concepts and theorems can be defined with a high degree of precision. It is based on the idea...
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recursion theorems are a pair of fundamental results about the application of computable functions to their own descriptions. The theorems were first...
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ring with a Hecke algebra (now referred to as an R=T theorem) to prove modularity lifting theorems has been an influential development in algebraic number...
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Bayesians will often motivate the Kolmogorov axioms by invoking Cox's theorem or the Dutch book arguments instead. The assumptions as to setting up the axioms...
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increases without bound. These theorems require stronger hypotheses than the forms of the central limit theorem given above. Theorems of this type are often called...
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