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My thanks to Peter Forrest and Jack Smart for helpful comments and, especially, to Jerry Gaus and Jeff Malpas for years of helpful conversation about matters dealt with here, however inadequately.

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D'agostino, F. Adjudication as an epistemological concept. Synthese 79, 231–256 (1989). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00869625

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