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This author gratefully acknowledges financial support from the Finnish Ministry of Education on the occasion of a visit to the University of Helsinki under a British Council Interchange Scheme.

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Pearce, D., Rantala, V. New foundations for metascience. Synthese 56, 1–26 (1983). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00485393

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