Comments on “Constructing a logic of plausible inference: a guide to Cox’s Theorem”, by Kevin S. Van Horn

Professor Van Horn [International Journal of Approximate Reasoning 34 (2003) 3] has reviewed much of the work that followed Richard Cox’s publication of his axioms for probability in 1946. My comments will emphasize work that came earlier and also merits attention. In particular, I will discuss work by Sergei Bernstein that is closely related to Cox’s but has been neglected by Cox and his commentators.