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I am very much indebted to M.K. Rennie, both for discussion and criticism and for some valuable suggestions as to how to carry the arguments through. I also want to thank the referee who suggested worthwhile ways of making the paper more readable.

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Routley, R. Universal semantics?. J Philos Logic 4, 327–356 (1975). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00262042

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