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PURE INDUCTIVE LOGIC WITH FUNCTIONS

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 April 2019

ELIZABETH HOWARTH  and
JEFFREY B. PARIS
ELIZABETH HOWARTH
Affiliation:
SCHOOL OF MATHEMATICS THE UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER MANCHESTER, M13 9PL, UKE-mail: lizhowarth@outlook.com
JEFFREY B. PARIS
Affiliation:
SCHOOL OF MATHEMATICS THE UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER MANCHESTER, M13 9PL, UK E-mail: jeff.paris@manchester.ac.uk
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Abstract

We consider the version of Pure Inductive Logic which obtains for the language with equality and a single unary function symbol giving a complete characterization of the probability functions on this language which satisfy Constant Exchangeability.

Keywords

03B4803H1003A99Constant ExchangeabilityInductive Logiclogical probabilityrationalityuncertain reasoning
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The Journal of Symbolic Logic , Volume 84 , Issue 4 , December 2019 , pp. 1382 - 1402
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Copyright © The Association for Symbolic Logic 2019 

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