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This paper is based on my comments on a short version of Patrick Maher's ‘Causality in the Logic of Decision’ (1987), his short version and my comments both presented to the Central Division Meeting of the American Philosophical Association in May 1986.
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Eells, E. Learning with detachment: Reply to Maher. Theor Decis 22, 173–180 (1987). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00126390
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