Kit Fine, The Limits of Abstraction Oxford, Clarendon Press, 2002, cloth 18.99/US $25.00 ISBN: 0-19-924618-1 [Book Review]

British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 55 (4):791-800 (2004)
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Critical Notice of The Limits of abstraction by Kit Fine, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2002, pp.216. ISBN 9780191567261

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