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    Douglas N. Walton

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Research for this paper was supported by three awards: (1) a Killam Research Fellowship awarded by the Killam Foundation throught the Canada Council; (2) a Fellowship from the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences; and (3) a Research Grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council fo Canada.

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Walton, D.N. Courage, relativism and practical reasoning. Philosophia 20, 227–240 (1990). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02382593

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