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Edited by Robert Binkley, Richard Bronaugh and Ausonio Marras, Toronto, University of Toronto Press, 1971; by Ingmar Pörn,The Agent, Action, and Reason, edited by Robert Binkley, Richard Bronaugh and Ausonio Marras, Toronto, University of Toronto Press, 1971;The Logic of Power, by Ingmar Pörn, Oxford, Blackwell, 1971, and Ingmar Pörn, ‘Some Basic Concepts of Action’, in Sören Stenlund (ed.),Logical Theory and Semantics, Dordrecht, Reidel, 1974, 93-101

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Walton, D. Action theory. Philosophia 8, 719–740 (1979). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02379062

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