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Thanks to Richard Grandy, John G. Sullivan, and Anne Ponder for especially valuable discussions.

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Waller, B.N. The virtues of contemporary emotivism. Erkenntnis 25, 61–75 (1986). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00173557

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