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  1. Department of Philosophy, University of Wisconsin, Madison, 53706, Madison, WI, USA

    Douglass Munro Smith

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I would like to thank the 1992 Donald Oliver Prize committee at the U.W. Madison, anonymous referees from this Journal, and most particularly Dennis Stampe and Leora Weitzman for their gracious help.

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Smith, D.M. Toward a perspicuous characterization of intentional states. Philos Stud 74, 103–120 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00989641

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