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I would like to thanks Louis Narens for comments on an earlier version of this paper.

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Skyrms, B. Strict coherence, sigma coherence and the metaphysics of quantity. Philos Stud 77, 39–55 (1995). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00996310

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