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- Authors
- Railton, P.
- Venue
- Synthese
- Published
- 1981-08
- Volume
- 48
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 233-256
- ISSN
- 0039-7857 (ISSN-L)
- 1573-0964
- OpenAlex
- W1983387205
- Cited by
- 356
- References
- 6
- FWCI
- 4.43
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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