Truthlikeness for hypotheses expressed in terms of n quantitative variables

Journal of Philosophical Logic

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 109-134

  Kieseppa I A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

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