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Work on this essay was supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities, to whom my thanks are extended. I am also grateful to Paul A. Roth and, especially, to Robert B. Barrett for helpful recommendations for improving this essay, many of which I have adopted.

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Gibson, R.F. Quine on naturalism and epistemology. Erkenntnis 27, 57–78 (1987). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00169711

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