Probabilistic measures of coherence: from adequacy constraints towards pluralism.
The debate on probabilistic measures of coherence flourishes for about 15 years now. Initiated by papers that have been published around the turn of the millennium, many different proposals have since then been put forward. This contribution is partly devoted to a reassessment of extant coherence me...
| Publicado en: | Synthese Vol. 191; no. 16; pp. 3821 - 3846 |
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