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    Manuel García-Carpintero

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I would like to express my gratitude to José Antonio Díez, Ramón Jansana, Ignacio Jané, Begoña Navarrete and a referee for this journal for their careful reading and useful comments on previous versions of this paper. The paper is part of the research project PB93-1049-C03-01, funded by the DGICYT, Spanish Ministry of Education.

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García-Carpintero, M. The model-theoretic argument: Another turn of the screw. Erkenntnis 44, 305–316 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00167660

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