Hume’s Problem Solved: The Optimality of Meta-Induction: by Gerhard Schurz, Cambridge, MA, MIT Press, 2019, 386pp., $60.00, £50, ISBN: 9780262039727

International Studies in the Philosophy of Science 32 (3-4):229-231 (2019)
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Volume 32, Issue 3-4, September - December 2019, Page 229-231.

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10.1080/02698595.2020.1767892

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