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University of California, Los Angeles, Philosophy 242, Fall Semester 1955. Edited for publication bij Arthur Benson.

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Carnap, R. Notes on probability and induction. Synthese 25, 269–298 (1973). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00499682

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