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I am indebted to Burton Dreben for helpful discussions and advice; and to Susan Neiman for criticism of the final draft of this paper.

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Hylton, P. Russell's substitutional theory. Synthese 45, 1–31 (1980). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00413984

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