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Comment author: scmbradley 17 January 2012 05:29:55PM 1 point [-]

Savage's representation theorem in Foundations of Statistics starts assuming neither. He just needs some axioms about preference over acts, some independence concepts and some pretty darn strong assumptions about the nature of events.

So it's possible to do it without assuming a utility scale or a probability function.

Comment author: Sniffnoy 17 January 2012 11:19:53PM 1 point [-]

I suppose this would be a good time to point anyone stumbling on this thread to my post that I later wrote on that theorem. :)