Aggregating agents with opinions about different propositions

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Abstract There are many reasons we might want to take the opinions of various individuals and pool them give group they constitute. If all in have probabilistic about same propositions, there is a host pooling functions deploy, such as linear or geometric pooling. However, also cases where different members assign probabilities sets which overlap lot, little, not at all. far fewer proposals for how proceed these cases, those undesirable features. I begin by considering four arguing that don’t work. Then I’ll describe my own proposal, intended cover situation individual order ascribe an opinion considered agent its right.

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ژورنال

عنوان ژورنال: Synthese

سال: 2022

ISSN: ['0039-7857', '1573-0964']

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-022-03850-4