Metaconfirmation

Theory and Decision

Volumn 41, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 195-228

  Zwirn, Denis ^a   Zwirn, Hervé P ^b  

^a Centre de Recherche en Epistemologie Appliquee Ecole Polytechnique   (France)

^b ECOLE POLYTECHNIQUE   (France)

Author keywords

Confirmation; Non monotonic reasoning; Probability

Indexed keywords

EID: 15544365097     PISSN: 00405833     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF00136126     Document Type: Article

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