The Role and Limitations of Rationalizing Explanation in the Social Sciences

Canadian Journal of Philosophy 19 (2):267 - 287 (1989)
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Toward a Unified Theory of Meaning and Action.Donald Davidson - 1980 - Grazer Philosophische Studien 11 (1):1-12.

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