Percentages and perchance: Archaic forms in the twenty-first century

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Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 155-173

  Guyer, Jane I ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Fairness; Future; Modal logic; Percentage

Indexed keywords

EID: 84923352551     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21599149     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/1600910X.2014.920268     Document Type: Article

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