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The Relevance Quotient: Keynes and Carnap

In: Fundamental Uncertainty

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  • Domenico Costantini
  • Ubaldo Garibaldi

Abstract

The well-known, but not widely read, book of John Maynard Keynes, A Treatise on Probability (hereafter TP) (Keynes, 1973a [1921])— essentially written more than ten years before it was published in 1921 by Macmillan & and Co. in London—consists of five parts. Part II, entitled “Fundamental Theorems,” comprises Chapters 10–17. In the introductory chapter of this part the author says In Part I we have been occupied with the epistemology of our subject, that is to say, with what we know about the characteristics and the justification of probable knowledge. In Part II I pass to its formal logic. I am not certain of how much positive value this Part will prove to the reader. My object in it is to show that [...] we can deduce by rigorous methods out of simple and precise definitions the usually accepted results.

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  • Domenico Costantini & Ubaldo Garibaldi, 2011. "The Relevance Quotient: Keynes and Carnap," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Silva Marzetti Dall’Aste Brandolini & Roberto Scazzieri (ed.), Fundamental Uncertainty, chapter 8, pages 171-210, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-0-230-30568-7_8
    DOI: 10.1057/9780230305687_8
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