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Butts on Whewell's View of True Causes

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 March 2022

David B. Wilson
David B. Wilson*
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Philosophy of Science , Volume 40 , Issue 1 , March 1973 , pp. 121 - 124
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Copyright © 1973 by The Philosophy of Science Association

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