On the Very Idea of Degrees of Belief

Within the large literature on degrees of belief, the amount of attention devoted to analysis of the very idea of degrees of belief—as opposed for example to questions of how the degrees of belief of rational agents should be structured and how they should be formally modelled—is relatively small. This paper first argues that the task of philosophical analysis of the concept of degree of belief is important and then goes on to propose a new elucidation of the notion.