Measuring coherence

Synthese

Volumn 156, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 405-425

  Douven, Igor ^a   Meijs, Wouter ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Bayesian epistemology; Coherence; Probability

Indexed keywords

EID: 34249713591     PISSN: 00397857     EISSN: 15730964     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11229-006-9131-z     Document Type: Conference Paper

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