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41 Post author: CarlShulman 07 March 2012 02:51AM

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Comment author: CarlShulman 03 March 2012 10:23:25PM 2 points [-]

As I said myself in the post! There is no disagreement on that, but there is an additional factor which I mentioned. The point was that if papers 1, 2, and 3 all display property A, while only 1 and 2 display property B, then 2 is prima facie more similar to 1 than 3.