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I am grateful to Berent Enc, Fred Dretske, and Dennis Stampe for suggestions they made on this paper as it evolved over several years.

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Sober, E. The evolution of rationality. Synthese 46, 95–120 (1981). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01064467

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