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In preparing this note, I profited from valuable discussions with a number of persons. Let me mention Nuel Belnap, Charles Chihara, Michael Lavine, William Reinhardt, Jack Silver, Albert Visser, Peter Woodruff, and Steven Yablo. Work along the same lines by Harvey Friedman was alluded to by Kripke [7, p. 712n].

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McGee, V. How truthlike can a predicate be? A negative result. J Philos Logic 14, 399–410 (1985). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00649483

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