Syntax, semantics, and ontology: A probabilistic causal calculus

DOI10.1007/BF00413415zbMath0406.03035WikidataQ114694613 ScholiaQ114694613MaRDI QIDQ1257478

Donald E. Nute, James H. Fetzer

Publication date: 1979

Published in: Synthese (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

OntologySemanticsSyntaxCompleteness TheoremsCausal ConditionalsProbabilistic Causal CalculusSoundness TheoremSubjunctive Conditionals

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Modal logic (including the logic of norms) (03B45) Other nonclassical logic (03B60) Philosophical and critical aspects of logic and foundations (03A05)

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