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    Supports→Dutch book and representation theorem arguments provide at best a pragmatic, not epistemic, justification for obeying the probability axioms

    Dutch book arguments show that deviating from probability axioms leads to irrational choices

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    Recently, a different sort of justification has been gaining favor, one that may extend to the PoI. Arguments that rely on Dutch book or representation theorems have long been suspect because of their pragmatic character. They aim to show that deviating from the probability axioms leads to irrational choices, which seems to show at best that obeying the probability axioms is part of pragmatic rationality, as opposed to epistemic irrationality. (But see Christensen (1996, 2001) and Vineberg (1997

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