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    Douglas N. Walton

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I would like to acknowledge support through research grants from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada and the University of Winnipeg, and thank Dick Epstein for criticisms of a previous draft of this paper.

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Walton, D.N. Pragmatic inferences about actions. Synthese 65, 211–233 (1985). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00869300

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