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No one is going to completely ignore points though since it is important to speak of topological models for probability spaces. Mackey approach is to define a probability space as a Boolean algebra equipped with a distinguished ideal (the null sets) and a measure and to define an action of a group on said space as an automorphism of the algebra preserving the ideal of null sets. the Borel algebra is isomorphic to the probability space.
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