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The research in this paper was supported by the Office of Naval Research under Contract number N00114-88-K-0194. The second author was supported by a fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. We thank Dana Scott, Brian Skyrms, Teddy Seidenfeld and Wilfried Sieg for their help.
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Spirtes, P., Glymour, C. & Scheines, R. From probability to causality. Philosophical Studies 64, 1–36 (1991). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00356088
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