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Work on this paper was supported by the University of Massachusetts and by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. I am indebted to the University of California at Irvine for providing office facilities, and to Karel Lambert, Kit Fine and David Woodruff Smith for criticism. A draft of this paper was read at a conference at Arizona State University, Tempe.
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Parsons, T. Referring to nonexistent objects. Theor Decis 11, 95–110 (1979). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00126695
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00126695