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Edwin Jaynes discusses "lattice" theories of probability where propositions are not universally comparable in appendix A of Probability Theory: The Logic of Science. Following Jaynes's account, probability theory would correspond to a uniformly dense lattice, whereas a lattice with very sparse structure and a few dense regions would correspond to compartmentalized beliefs.