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Some Aspects of Polyadic Inductive Logic

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We give a brief account of some de Finetti style representation theorems for probability functions satisfying Spectrum Exchangeability in Polyadic Inductive Logic, together with applications to Non-splitting, Language Invariance, extensions with Equality and Instantial Relevance.

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Landes, J., Paris, J. & Vencovská, A. Some Aspects of Polyadic Inductive Logic. Stud Logica 90, 3–16 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11225-008-9140-7

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