Normative theories of rationality: Occam's razor, Procrustes' bed?

Behavioral and Brain Sciences 6 (2):255-256 (1983)
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Word and Object.Willard Van Orman Quine - 1960 - Cambridge, MA, USA: MIT Press.
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The logic of scientific discovery.Karl Raimund Popper - 1934 - New York: Routledge. Edited by Hutchinson Publishing Group.

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