Conventionalism, the pluralist conception of theories and the nature of interpretation

Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A 23 (3):423-443 (1991)
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Geometrical and physical conventionalism of Henri Poincaré in epistemological formulation.Jerzy Giedymin - 1991 - Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A 22 (1):1-22.

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