Rational acceptance and conjunctive/disjunctive absorption

Journal of Logic, Language and Information

Volumn 15, Issue 1-2, 2006, Pages 49-63

  Wheeler, Gregory ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDADE NOVA DE LISBOA   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Bounded uncertain reasoning; Probabilistic logic; Rational acceptance; System P; The lottery paradox

Indexed keywords

EID: 33747483759     PISSN: 09258531     EISSN: 15729583     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10849-005-9006-6     Document Type: Article

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