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This paper was written while I was at Otago University in the Philosophy Department. I am most grateful for the hospitality extended to me there.

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Forge, J. Errors of measurement and explanation-as-unification. Philosophia 22, 41–61 (1993). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02379806

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