Equivalent testimonies as a touchstone of coherence measures

Synthese

Volumn 161, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 167-182

  Siebel, Mark ^a   Wolff, Werner ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Equivalent testimonies; Probabilistic measures of coherence

Indexed keywords

EID: 38749113415     PISSN: 00397857     EISSN: 15730964     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11229-006-9155-4     Document Type: Article

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