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  1. After initially submitting this Comment the Editor sent us the full version of Hendry et al. (2010), which hitherto we were unaware of, and in that we found a reference to Broad and one to Woolley and Sutcliffe and some to Woolley alone. We were rather relieved to find that it was not Broad’s work in the 1950s on psychic phenomena that Hendry quoted but rather his work on mind and his introduction of the notion of ‘emergence’ into philosophical discussion.

  2. See, for example, Anderson’s discussion of what he calls ‘adiabatic continuity’ (Anderson 1984).

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    Brian T. Sutcliffe

  2. School of Biomedical and Natural Sciences, Nottingham Trent University, Nottingham, NG11 8NS, UK

    R. Guy Woolley

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Sutcliffe, B.T., Woolley, R.G. A comment on “Editorial 37”. Found Chem 13, 93–95 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10698-011-9110-4

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