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...Cite book |last=Cook |first=Roy T. |date=2009-03-20 |title=A Dictionary of Philosophical Logic |url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9780748631971 |doi=10.1515/97807486319 ...ith Tonk(?) |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/30226839 |journal=Journal of Philosophical Logic |volume=34 |issue=2 |pages=221 |doi=10.1007/s10992-004-7805-x |jstor= ...