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I am indebted to my colleague Richard J. Hall for many hours of stimulating and fruitful discussions of the ideas presented in this paper. I am also indebted to James H. Fetzer for a series of communications which were instrumental in the evolution of my criticisms of his Causal-Relevance model of statistical explanation. Finally, I would like to thank the National Science Foundation for support of this research.
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Hanna, J.F. Single case propensities and the explanation of particular events. Synthese 48, 409–436 (1981). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01063987
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