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I would like to thank W. R. Carter, Charles Chihara, Karel J. Lambert, Kirk Ludwig, Stephen Neale, Herman Cappelan, and an anonymous referee for this Journal, for helpful discussion on this topic, as well as for their comments on earlier drafts of this paper. A version of the paper was read at the 1993 Pacific Division meeting of the APA in San Francisco. I wish to thank especially David Cowles and Mark Richard for their thoughtful contributions in that session.

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Ray, G. Kripke & the existential complaint. Philos Stud 74, 121–135 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00989799

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