Deontic logics for prioritized imperatives
✍ Scribed by Jörg Hansen
- Book ID
- 106351455
- Publisher
- Springer Netherlands
- Year
- 2006
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 518 KB
- Volume
- 14
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0924-8463
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