Reliability conducive measures of coherence

Synthese

Volumn 157, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 297-308

  Olsson, Erik J ^a,c   Schubert, Stefan ^b  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c NONE   (Switzerland)

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EID: 34547498832     PISSN: 00397857     EISSN: 15730964     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11229-006-9056-6     Document Type: Article

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