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- Authors
- SOBER, E.
- Venue
- The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science
- Publisher
- University of Chicago Press
- Published
- 1981-06-01
- Volume
- 32
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 145-156
- ISSN
- 0007-0882 (ISSN-L)
- 1464-3537
- OpenAlex
- W2010133190
- Cited by
- 181
- References
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- FWCI
- 4.43
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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