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This paper was written under a grant from the University of Wisconsin-Madison Graduate School, which I gratefully acknowledge. I would also like to thank Mark Kaplan for a number of useful suggestions.

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Eells, E. On a recent theory of rational acceptance. Philosophical Studies 44, 331–343 (1983). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00353540

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