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Research carried out under the auspices of the Bank of Sweden. Tercentenary Foundation project RJ 86/183: Basic Concepts of Procedural Law in the Light of Present-Day Philosophy of Language and Linguistics.
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Åqvist, L. On the logic of causally necessary and sufficient conditions: Towards a theory of motive-explanations of human actions. Erkenntnis 31, 43–75 (1989). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01239129
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