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RELEVANT CONDITIONALS, and relevant application thereof

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Logic, Language and Computation

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Λ. Prelude to a Unified Theory of the Central Conditional

Λ.1 Background on Relevant Logics, and Introduction to Relevant Conditionals

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Sylvan, R. (1997). RELEVANT CONDITIONALS, and relevant application thereof. In: Akama, S. (eds) Logic, Language and Computation. Applied Logic Series, vol 5. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-5638-7_10

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