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Money pumps and diachronic books
Proceedings of the Philosophy of Science Association 2002 (3):S235-S247 (2002)
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The idea that rational agents should have acyclic preferences and should obey conditionalization has been defended on the grounds that otherwise an agent is threatened with becoming a “money pump.” This essay argues that such arguments fail to prove their claimsAuthor's Profile
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Betting on Theories.Patrick Maher - 1993 - Cambridge, New York and Melbourne: Cambridge University Press.
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