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I would like to thank Henk Zandwoort for a number of stimulating discussions about some issues in the article and for his detailed comments in the final stage. I am also grateful to J. van Benthem, R. Cooke, D. Pearce, D. Miller, I. Niiniluoto, G. Oddie and K. Popper for their comments on a note of June 1981 and the last four also for drawing my attention to Miller's article of 1978. Finally, I thank the referee for redrawing my attention to Cohen's paper of 1980 and for stimulating me in adding some clarifying digressions. Of course, all responsibility is mine.
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Kuipers, T.A.F. Approaching descriptive and theoretical truth. Erkenntnis 18, 343–378 (1982). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00205277
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