A logic for `because'

DOI10.1017/S1755020311000104MaRDI QIDQ3096822zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Benjamin Schnieder

Publication date 14 November 2011

Published in The Review of Symbolic Logic (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1017/s1755020311000104

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Philosophical and critical aspects of logic and foundations (03A05) Logic of natural languages (03B65)

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