Conditional random quantities and compounds of conditionals

Studia Logica

Volumn 102, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 709-729

  Gilio, Angelo ^a   Sanfilippo, Giuseppe ^b  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PALERMO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Coherence; Conditional events; Conditional random quantities; Conjunction; Disjunction; Import export principle; Iterated conditioning; Lower upper prevision bounds

Indexed keywords

EID: 84924345157     PISSN: 00393215     EISSN: 15728730     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11225-013-9511-6     Document Type: Article

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