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The Brier Rule Is not a Good Measure of Epistemic Utility (and Other Useful Facts about Epistemic Betterness)

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Pages 576-590 | Received 30 Apr 2015, Accepted 28 Oct 2015, Published online: 14 Dec 2015

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