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Work leading to the production of this paper was generously supported by the Australian Research Council.

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Levy, N. Countering Cova: Frankfurt-Style Cases are Still Broken. Ethic Theory Moral Prac 17, 523–527 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10677-013-9459-7

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