Some puzzles about probability and probabilistic conditionals

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 4514 LNCS, Issue , 2007, Pages 449-456

  Parikh, Rohit ^a  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMPUTER SCIENCE; THEOREM PROVING;

PARADOXES; PROBABILISTIC CONDITIONALS;

PROBABILISTIC LOGICS;

EID: 35448968633     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-72734-7_31     Document Type: Conference Paper

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