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The Geometry of Opinion: Jeffrey Shifts and Linear Operators

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 April 2022

Bas C. van Fraassen
Bas C. van Fraassen*
Affiliation:
Department of Philosophy, Princeton University
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Abstract

Richard Jeffrey and Michael Goldstein have both introduced systematic approaches to the structure of opinion changes. For both approaches there are theorems which indicate great generality and width of scope. The main questions addressed here will be to what extent the basic forms of representation are intertranslatable, and how we can conceive of such programs in general.

Type
Research Article
Information
Philosophy of Science , Volume 59 , Issue 2 , June 1992 , pp. 163 - 175
Copyright
Copyright © Philosophy of Science Association 1992

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