Tweety, or why probabilism and even bayesianism need objective and evidential probabilities

Probabilities, Laws, and Structures

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 57-74

  Schurz, Gerhard ^a  

^a HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

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EID: 84875492947     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-94-007-3030-4_5     Document Type: Chapter

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