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Reply to David Wilson: Was Whewell Interested in True Causes?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 March 2022

Robert E. Butts
Robert E. Butts*
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University of Western Ontario
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Philosophy of Science , Volume 40 , Issue 1 , March 1973 , pp. 125 - 128
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Copyright © 1973 by The Philosophy of Science Association

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