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The research on which this paper is based was carried out during a year's study leave at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand, partly supported by Canada Council Leave Fellowship 750356. I would like to thank, in addition to participants of the Logic Seminar at VUW, Lynn Batten, Don Grant, and Peter Miller, who made some valuable comments when this material was read for the Math-Philosophy Seminar at the University of Winnipeg.
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Walton, D.N. Relatedness in intensional action chains. Philosophical Studies 36, 175–223 (1979). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00354268
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