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The first author contributed the ontology and the second author contributed the semantics and the appendix, while the syntax was a mutual contribution. In conception and final form, this paper is due to the first author. The authors have benefited from the criticism of an anonymous referee; and the second author is grateful for support from the National Science Foundation.
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Fetzer, J.H., Nute, D.E. Syntax, semantics, and ontology: A probabilistic causal calculus. Synthese 40, 453–495 (1979). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00413415
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