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Hypothetical Identities and Ontological Economizing: Comments on Causey's Program for the Unity of Science

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 April 2022

Robert N. McCauley
Robert N. McCauley*
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Department of Philosophy and Religion Indiana Central University
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Philosophy of Science , Volume 48 , Issue 2 , June 1981 , pp. 218 - 227
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Copyright © 1981 by the Philosophy of Science Association

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An earlier version of this paper was presented to the Indiana Philosophical Association. I would like to express my gratitude to William Wimsatt with whom I have spent many hours discussing the issues of this paper.

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