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    Aaron Z. Zimmerman

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I would like to thank Anthony Brueckner, Eric Gilbertson, Carl Ginet, Delia Graff, Brendan Jackson, Keith McPartland, Christopher Peacocke, Michael Rescorla, Sydney Shoemaker and Jason Stanley for discussion of these and related issues, and the members of the 2002 NEH summer seminar on Consciousness and Intentionality where I presented a fairly distant ancestor of this paper. Special thanks go to C. Anthony Anderson, Kevin Falvey and Nathan Salmon for key references and particularly helpful discussions at several meetings of the Santa Barbarians, and to two referees from Synthese for valuable written comments.

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Zimmerman, A.Z. Self-Verification and the Content of Thought. Synthese 149, 59–75 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-004-6247-x

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