The Tacking by Disjunction Paradox: Bayesianism Versus Hypothetico-Deductivism
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عنوان ژورنال: Erkenntnis
سال: 2006
ISSN: 0165-0106,1572-8420
DOI: 10.1007/s10670-005-5059-9