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I am grateful to Lilly-Marlene Russow and George Graham for instructive comments on a previous draft of this paper. This paper was written with the support of a Fellowship for College Teachers from the National Endowment for the Humanities, for which I am most thankful.

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Maloney, J.C. The right stuff. Synthese 70, 349–372 (1987). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00414155

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