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The research leading to this paper was supported under NSF grant GS-2517. In the course of working over various earlier versions I have had helpful exchanges with many persons, among whom I am especially grateful to Clifford Abbot, Theodore Drange, George Lakoff, Robert L. Martin, Julius Moravcsik, Dana Scott, Bas van Fraassen, and Peter Woodruff.

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Thomason, R.H. A semantic theory of sortal incorrectness. J Philos Logic 1, 209–258 (1972). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00650499

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