finite additivity

The topic finite additivity is discussed in the following articles:

use in probability theory

  • TITLE: probability theory (mathematics)
    SECTION: Measure theory
    ...however, nothing in one’s intuitive notion of probability that requires the acceptance of this property. Indeed, a few mathematicians have developed probability theory with only the weaker axiom of finite additivity, but the absence of interesting models that fail to satisfy the axiom of countable additivity has led to its virtually universal acceptance.