Uncertainty and the de Finetti tables

Thinking and Reasoning

Volumn 19, Issue 3-4, 2013, Pages 308-328

  Baratgin, Jean ^a   Over, David E ^b   Politzer, Guy ^a  

^a INSTITUT JEAN NICOD   (France)

^b DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bets on conditionals; de Finetti tables; Indicative conditionals; New paradigm psychology of reasoning; Uncertainty and three valued tables

Indexed keywords

EID: 84887990907     PISSN: 13546783     EISSN: 14640708     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13546783.2013.809018     Document Type: Article

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