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Dutch Book Arguments and Imprecise Probabilities

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I have an urn that contains 100 marbles. 30 of those marbles are red. The remain 6 der are yellow. What sort of bets would you be willing to make on the outcome 7 of the next marble drawn from the urn? What odds would you accept on the event 8 “the next marble will be yellow”? A reasonable punter should be willing to accept 9 any betting quotient up to 0.7. I define “betting quotient” as the ratio of the stake 10 to the total winnings. That is the punter should accept a bet that, for an outlay of 11 70 cents, guarantees a return of 1 euro if the next marble is yellow. And the punter 12 should obviously accept bets that cost less for the same return, but what we are 13 really interested in is the most the punter would pay for a bet on an event.

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Bradley, S. (2012). Dutch Book Arguments and Imprecise Probabilities. In: Dieks, D., Gonzalez, W., Hartmann, S., Stöltzner, M., Weber, M. (eds) Probabilities, Laws, and Structures. The Philosophy of Science in a European Perspective, vol 3. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-3030-4_1

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