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  1. Automated Reasoning Project and Department of Philosophy Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University, GPO Box 4, 2601, ACT, Australia

    André Fuhrmann

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I am grateful to Peter Lavers and Isaac Levi for the discussions that led to writing this paper. I also wish to thank Peter Gärdenfors and Hans Rott for their comments on an earlier version of this paper. This paper was written while holding a research scholarship in the Automated Reasoning Project at the Australian National University.

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Fuhrmann, A. Reflective modalities and theory change. Synthese 81, 115–134 (1989). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00869347

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