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Maximum entropy inference as a special case of conditionalization

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Research for this paper was partially supported by the National Science Foundation, Grant # SES-8007884. The paper continues a line of inquiry initiated in Skyrms (1980a,b) and pursued in Skyrms (1981).

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Skyrms, B. Maximum entropy inference as a special case of conditionalization. Synthese 63, 55–74 (1985). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00485955

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