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My thanks to Larry Fraley, Jack Michael, and Julie Vargas for comments on an earlier version of this paper.

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Vargas, E.A. A New Term and Some Old Advice. BEHAV ANALYST 7, 67–69 (1984). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03391887

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