Categorical versus graded beliefs

Franz Dietrich

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Abstract: This essay discusses the difficulty to reconcile two paradigms about beliefs: the binary or categorical paradigm of yes/no beliefs and the probabilistic paradigm of degrees of belief. The possibility for someone to hold beliefs of both types simultaneously is challenged by the lottery paradox, and more recently by a general impossibility theorem by Dietrich and List. The nature, relevance, and implications of the tension are explained and assessed.

Keywords: logic vs. rational choice theory; yes/no belief vs. graded belief; subjective probability; belief binarization; lottery paradox; impossibility theorem; binary belief; credence (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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Published in Frontiers in Psychology, 2022, 13, pp.817940. ⟨10.3389/fpsyg.2022.817940⟩

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DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2022.817940

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