When are probabilistic explanations possible?

DOI10.1007/BF01063886zbMATH Open0476.03011MaRDI QIDQ1159611FDOQ1159611

Authors: P. Suppes, Mario Zanotti 

Publication date: 1981

Published in: Synthese (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

Bell-type inequalityprobabilistic causalityexistence of probabilistic hidden variables

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Probability and inductive logic (03B48) Philosophical and critical aspects of logic and foundations (03A05) Foundations, quantum information and its processing, quantum axioms, and philosophy (81P99)

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