How uncertain do we need to be?

DOI10.1007/S10670-013-9516-6MaRDI QIDQ907889zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Jon Williamson

Publication date 27 January 2016

Published in Erkenntnis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/s10670-013-9516-6

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Decision theory (91B06) Bayesian problems; characterization of Bayes procedures (62C10) Logic in the philosophy of science (03A10)

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