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Standard Probabilistic Semantics

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What we call the standard probabilistic semantics (or standard semantics for short) is the most basic semantics for probabilistic logic.

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Haenni, R., Romeijn, JW., Wheeler, G., Williamson, J. (2011). Standard Probabilistic Semantics. In: Probabilistic Logics and Probabilistic Networks. Synthese Library, vol 350. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-0008-6_2

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