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We give an account of some relationships between the principles of Constant and Atom Exchangeability and various generalizations of the Principle of Instantial Relevance within the framework of Inductive Logic. In particular we demonstrate some surprising and somewhat counterintuitive dependencies of these relationships on ostensibly unimportant parameters, such as the number of predicates in the overlying language.
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Paris, J.B., Waterhouse, P. Atom Exchangeability and Instantial Relevance. J Philos Logic 38, 313–332 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10992-008-9093-3
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