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Presented at the meeting of the Boston Colloquium for the Philosophy of Science, March 8, 1962. This research was supported in part by the Office of Naval Research, Group Psychology Branch, Contract≅SAR/Nonr-609 (16). We are forced again as in our last article17 to apologize to our friends Jon Barwise, Nuel D. Belnap, Jr., and Neil Gallagher, for boring them to tears in the course of reading and re-reading earlier drafts of this article. They are not to be held accountable for our errors, but they have surely saved us from many.

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Anderson, A.R., Moore, O.K. Toward a formal analysis of cultural objects. Synthese 14, 144–170 (1962). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00881991

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