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We show that under the assumptions of Spectrum Exchangeability and Language Invariance the so called Only Rule, a principle of instantial relevance previously know for unary (i.e. classical) Carnapian Inductive Logic, also holds in Polyadic Inductive Logic.
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Landes, J., Paris, J., Vencovská, A. (2008). Instantial Relevance in Polyadic Inductive Logic. In: Ramanujam, R., Sarukkai, S. (eds) Logic and Its Applications. ICLA 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 5378. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-92701-3_11
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