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             Kelly: "A
construct which preempts its elements for membership in its own realm
exclusively is called a preemptive construct. This is the 'nothing but'
type of construction - 'If this is a ball it is nothing but a ball'."
(1955/1991, Vol. 2,  p. 6/1991) 
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