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Causal-Relevance explanation: Salmon's theory and its relation to Reichenbach

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    Edwin Levy

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Special thanks to Jonathan Katz and Steven Savitt for many long discussions about this paper. Also, C. Glymour, W. Salmon, B. van Fraassen and my colleagues made helpful comments about the draft.

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Levy, E. Causal-Relevance explanation: Salmon's theory and its relation to Reichenbach. Synthese 50, 423–445 (1982). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00413891

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