A Puzzle About Stalnaker's Hypothesis

Topoi

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 31-37

  Douven, Igor ^a   Dietz, Richard ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Conditionals; Probability; Stalnaker's Hypothesis; Triviality arguments

Indexed keywords

EID: 79955407363     PISSN: 01677411     EISSN: 15728749     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11245-010-9082-3     Document Type: Article

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