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This work was supported in part by an Andrew Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship to the University of Pittsburgh.

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Rantala, V. On the logical basis of the structuralist philosophy of science. Erkenntnis 15, 269–286 (1980). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02070839

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