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Transmissible improbabilities and marginal essentialness of premises in inferences involving indicative conditionals

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This research was supported by National Science Foundation Grant SES-77-145-17OL. I should like to acknowledge the perceptive comments and criticisms of anonymous referees on earlier versions of this paper.

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Adams, E.W. Transmissible improbabilities and marginal essentialness of premises in inferences involving indicative conditionals. J Philos Logic 10, 149–177 (1981). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00248847

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