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Thanks are due to Andre Fuhrmann, Peter Gärdenfors, James Higgenbotham, Peter Laveves and David Makinson for helpful comments and identification of egregious errors.
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Levi, I. Iteration of conditionals and the Ramsey test. Synthese 76, 49–81 (1988). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00869641
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