On the alleged impossibility of coherence

Synthese

Volumn 157, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 347-360

  Meijs, Wouter ^a   Douven, Igor ^b  

^a ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Bovens; Coherence; Hartmann; Olsson; Probability; Truth

Indexed keywords

EID: 34547551842     PISSN: 00397857     EISSN: 15730964     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11229-006-9060-x     Document Type: Article

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