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The material of this article was presented as a contributed paper to the 6th International Congress of Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science in Hanover, August 1979. I am indebted to Bruno de Finetti and Isaac Levi for comments concerning the congress paper. This extended version has benefitted from comments by Jens Erik Fenstad, Ilkka Niiniluoto and Ingmar Pörn.

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von Plato, J. Reductive relations in interpretations of probability. Synthese 48, 61–75 (1981). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01064628

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