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A critique of Suppes' theory of probabilistic causality

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    Richard Otte

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The author wishes to thank Wesley Salmon for valuable comments on an earlier version of this paper.

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Otte, R. A critique of Suppes' theory of probabilistic causality. Synthese 48, 167–189 (1981). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01063885

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