Assessing theories, Bayes style

Synthese

Volumn 161, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 89-118

  Huber, Franz ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Confirmation; Probability; Theory evaluation

Indexed keywords

EID: 38749118657     PISSN: 00397857     EISSN: 15730964     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11229-006-9141-x     Document Type: Article

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