Third Axiom
This is the assumption of σ-additivity:
- Any countable sequence of pairwise disjoint (synonymous with mutually exclusive) events satisfies
Some authors consider merely finitely additive probability spaces, in which case one just needs an algebra of sets, rather than a σ-algebra.
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