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I would like to thank Jonathan Lee, Terry Pinkard, Steven S. Schwarzschild, Jill Petzall, Bob Gibbs, Bill Hamrick and Jim Bohman for their very helpful criticisms of earlier drafts of this paper.
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Evans, J.C. Deconstructing the declaration: A case study in pragrammatology. Man and World 23, 175–189 (1990). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01248722
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