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This paper was written during the author's visit at the Johns Hopkins University under the Fulbright-Hays Program. The support of the Finnish Cultural Foundation is gratefully acknowledged. The author is grateful for the comments of Dr. Peter Achinstein (Dept. of Philosophy, Johns Hopkins University) on the first two sections of an earlier draft of this paper.
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Nurmi, H. Social causality and empirical data reduction techniques. Qual Quant 8, 159–180 (1974). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00208006
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