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An earlier version of this paper was read in a Symposium on Carnap's Philosophy at Stanford University, Stanford, 1970. This work has been supported by a U.S. Department of State Grant No. 70-066-A.

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Hilpinen, R. Carnap's new system of inductive logic. Synthese 25, 307–333 (1973). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00499684

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