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In all probability, quite handy

Alan Hájek and Christopher Hitchcock (eds.): The Oxford handbook of probability and philosophy. New York: Oxford University Press, 2016, 880pp, $150.00 HB

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Dorst, C. In all probability, quite handy. Metascience 27, 223–226 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11016-017-0282-y

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