Evaluating the Uncertainties

Logic, Argumentation and Reasoning

Volumn 10, Issue , 2016, Pages 79-104

  Hansson, Sven Ove ^a  

^a ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Argumentation; Decision rules; Epistemic defaults; Expected utility; Fallacies; Hypothetical retrospection; Scenarios; Symmetry arguments; Uncertainty

Indexed keywords

EID: 85026637425     PISSN: 22149120     EISSN: 22149139     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-30549-3_4     Document Type: Chapter

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