A Defence of van Fraassen’s Critique of Abductive Inference: Reply to Psillos

Philosophical Quarterly 47 (188):305-321 (1997)
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Leon Horsten
Universität Konstanz
James Ladyman
University of Bristol
Bas C. Van Fraassen
San Francisco State University
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