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I am grateful to Peter Gärdenfors and Wolfgang Spohn for helpful comments on an earlier version of this paper and to William Finnoff for correcting my English.
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Rott, H. Ifs, though, and because . Erkenntnis 25, 345–370 (1986). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00175348
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