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In previous papers, by resorting to the most effective concept of conditional probability, we have been able not only to define fuzzy subsets, but also to introduce in a very natural way the basic continuous T-norms and the relevant dual T-conorms, bound to the former by coherence. Moreover, we have given, as an interesting and fundamental by-product of our approach, a natural interpretation of possibility functions, both from a semantic and a syntactic point of view.
In this paper we study the properties of a coherent conditional probability looked on as a general non-additive uncertainty measure of the conditioning events, and we prove that this measure is a capacity if and only if it is a possibility.
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Coletti, G., Scozzafava, R. (2003). Coherent Conditional Probability as a Measure of Uncertainty of the Relevant Conditioning Events. In: Nielsen, T.D., Zhang, N.L. (eds) Symbolic and Quantitative Approaches to Reasoning with Uncertainty. ECSQARU 2003. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 2711. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-45062-7_33
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