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A shorter version of this article appeared in The Times Literary Supplement N. 4565, 28 September–4 October 1990, p. 1030. The reprint of the previously published material is by permission of The Times Literary Supplement.
I am also grateful to Professors G. H. von Wright, Rudolf Haller, and David Stern as well as to Mr. Heikki Nyman for information and for other kinds of help.
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Hintikka, J. An impatient man and his papers. Synthese 87, 183–201 (1991). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00485399
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