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A theory of probability will be taken to be an axiom system that probabilities must satisfy, together with rules for constructing and interpreting probabilities. A person using the theory will construct some probabilities according to the rules, compute other probabilities according to the axioms, and then interpret these probabilities according to the rules; if the interpretation is unreasonable perhaps the original construction will be adjusted.
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Hartigan, J.A. (1983). Theories of Probability. In: Bayes Theory. Springer Series in Statistics. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-8242-3_1
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