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2010 Past Probabilities
Sven Ove Hansson
Notre Dame J. Formal Logic 51(2): 207-223 (2010). DOI: 10.1215/00294527-2010-013

Abstract

The probability that a fair coin tossed yesterday landed heads is either 0 or 1, but the probability that it would land heads was 0.5. In order to account for the latter type of probabilities, past probabilities, a temporal restriction operator is introduced and axiomatically characterized. It is used to construct a representation of conditional past probabilities. The logic of past probabilities turns out to be strictly weaker than the logic of standard probabilities.

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Sven Ove Hansson. "Past Probabilities." Notre Dame J. Formal Logic 51 (2) 207 - 223, 2010. https://doi.org/10.1215/00294527-2010-013

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Published: 2010
First available in Project Euclid: 11 June 2010

zbMATH: 1205.03008
MathSciNet: MR2667933
Digital Object Identifier: 10.1215/00294527-2010-013

Subjects:
Primary: 60A99
Secondary: 03B44

Keywords: chance , objective probability , past probability , propensity , temporal restriction

Rights: Copyright © 2010 University of Notre Dame

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