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On the inventors of XYZ
Foundations of Chemistry 7 (1):57-84 (2004)
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In this paper I try to make as much sense aspossible of, first, the extensive philosophicalliterature concerned with the status of `Wateris H2O' and, second, the implications ofPutnam's invention of Twin Earth, anotherpossible world stipulated to be just like Earth, except that water is XYZ, notH2OAuthor's Profile
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