Further results on inquiry and truth possession

Statistics and Probability Letters

Volumn 60, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 169-182

  Fallis, Don ^a   Liddell, Gerrard ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Epistemic utility; Philosophy of science; Proper scoring rules; Scientific experiment; Truth acquisition; Truth possession

Indexed keywords

EID: 0037111675     PISSN: 01677152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-7152(02)00308-5     Document Type: Article

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