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Reduction and abduction in chemistry‐a response to Scerri

Paul Needham Department of Philosophy, University of Stockholm, Stockholm, S‐106 91, Sweden E-mail: [email protected]
Pages 169-184 | Published online: 09 Jun 2008

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