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The first version of this paper was read at the Department of Statistics, University of Helsinki, on October 6, 1982, and at the Department of Philosophy, Columbia University, New York, on October 26, 1982.
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Niiniluoto, I. Truthlikeness and Bayesian estimation. Synthese 67, 321–346 (1986). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00540074
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