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Mutual dependence of probabilities of two physical occurences implies existence of an interaction or causal link between them. Axiomatized along these lines, the formalization of conditionals comes out as identical to that of transition probabilities.
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de Beauregard, O.C. (1994). Intersubjectivity, Relativistic Invariance, and Conditionals (Classical and Quantal). In: van der Merwe, A., Garuccio, A. (eds) Waves and Particles in Light and Matter. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-2550-9_16
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