KPS representation and completeness theorems #
The top-level results of [HI13] / [KPS59]:
ComparativeProbability.representable_of_card_lt_five— for|W| < 5, every FA model is representable by a finitely additive probability measure (FA = FP∞ below five worlds).ComparativeProbability.exists_nonrepresentable_of_five_le_card— for|W| ≥ 5, FA is strictly weaker than FP∞ (the KPS counterexample, padded with null atoms).ComparativeProbability.exists_qualAddMeasure_repr,exists_dominationLift_repr— qualitative completeness results ([vdH96]; [Hal03] Thm. 7.5.1a).ComparativeProbability.axiomA_iff_fa— Axiom A is equivalent to disjoint-union invariance (finite additivity).
Theorem 8a ([KPS59]; [HI13] Theorem 8): below five worlds every FA system is representable — FA and FP∞ coincide.
Theorem 8b ([KPS59] Theorem 8): at every cardinality ≥ 5 some FA system is non-representable, so FA is strictly weaker than FP∞.
Theorem 6 completeness ([HI13], Theorem 6; [vdH96]): every FA system is representable by a qualitatively additive measure — the dominated-set count, affinely renormalised so μ(∅) = 0 and μ(Ω) = 1.
Theorem 2 ([Hal03], Thm. 7.5.1a; [HI13]): an epistemic system satisfying R, T, Tran, J (right-union), and DS (determination by singletons) is representable by Lewis's l-lifting from a reflexive preorder on worlds.
The paper states this as a logic completeness theorem for WJR (K + BT + Tran + J + Mon + R). We prove the underlying per-model representation result, which is the model-theoretic core: the semantic hypotheses (R, T, Tran, J, DS) correspond to WJR's axioms evaluated on a single model, without formalizing the syntax or proof system.
Construction: ge_w u v := sys.ge {u} {v}.
Algebraic bridge: Axiom A and the finite additivity property
of AdditiveScale are equivalent for any comparison on sets.