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I am grateful to Jeffrey Blustein, Dan Boone, and Michael Stocker for helpful comments. Special thanks to Catherine Elgin, particularly for her comments on Sections 5 and 8.1. This article was written under a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities, to whom I extend my gratitude.

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Adler, J.E. Reasonableness, bias, and the untapped power of procedure. Synthese 94, 105–125 (1993). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01064574

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