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Causation, Explanation, and Statistical Relevance

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 April 2022

Douglas W. Shrader Jr.
Douglas W. Shrader Jr.*
Affiliation:
University of Illinois at Chicago Circle
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Philosophy of Science , Volume 44 , Issue 1 , March 1977 , pp. 136 - 145
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Copyright © 1977 by the Philosophy of Science Association

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I would like to thank Bryan Skyrms, Paul Teller, John Meixner, Dick Buchanan, and my wife, Barbara, for their helpful comments on earlier drafts of this paper.

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