Elliott, E.J.R. orcid.org/0000-0002-4387-7967 (2025) How to Read a Representor. Ergo, 12. 22. ISSN 2330-4014
Abstract
Imprecise probabilities are often modelled with representors, or sets of probability functions. In the recent literature, two ways of interpreting representors have emerged as especially prominent: vagueness interpretations, according to which each probability function in the set represents how the agent's beliefs would be if any vagueness were precisified away; and comparativist interpretations, according to which the set represents those comparative confidence relations that are common to all probability functions therein. I argue that these interpretations have some important limitations. I also propose an alternative—the functional interpretation—according to which representors are best interpreted by reference to the roles they play in the theories that make use of them.
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Cultures (Leeds) > School of Philosophy, Religion and History of Science (Leeds) > School of Philosophy (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 18 Mar 2024 16:05 |
Last Modified: | 19 Jun 2025 08:49 |
Published Version: | https://journals.publishing.umich.edu/ergo/article... |
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Publisher: | Michigan Publishing |
Identification Number: | 10.3998/ergo.7653 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:210357 |