Inference to the best explanation: Or, who won the Mill-Whewell debate?: Peter Lipton (London: Routledge, 1991), x+ 194 pp. ISBN 0-415-05886-4 Cloth£ 35.00 [Book Review]

Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A 23 (2):349-364 (1991)
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