Poincaré's Conventionalism of Applied Geometry

Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A 8 (4):303 (1977)
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The Analytic and the Synthetic.Hilary Putnam - 1962 - Critica 1 (2):109-113.
On the Foundations of Geometry.Henri Poincaré - 1898 - The Monist 9 (1):1-43.
La mesure du temps.H. Poincaré - 1898 - Revue de Métaphysique et de Morale 6 (1):1 - 13.

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