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"Reverse Bayesianism": A clarification and generalization

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  • Karni, Edi
  • Valenzuela-Stookey, Quiteze
  • Viero, Marie-Louise

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In this note we clarify and generalize the main result in Karni and Viero (2013) by allowing the discovery of new consequences to nulllify some states that were non-null before the discovery.

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  • Karni, Edi & Valenzuela-Stookey, Quiteze & Viero, Marie-Louise, 2018. ""Reverse Bayesianism": A clarification and generalization," Queen's Economics Department Working Papers 274726, Queen's University - Department of Economics.
    • Handle: RePEc:ags:quedwp:274726
    DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.274726
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    1. Edi Karni & Marie-Louise Vier?, 2013. ""Reverse Bayesianism": A Choice-Based Theory of Growing Awareness," American Economic Review, American Economic Association, vol. 103(7), pages 2790-2810, December.
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