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The Structure of Biological Theories
State University of New York Press (1989)
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The central thesis of this book is that the semantic conception is a logical methodologically and heuristically richer and more accurate account of scientific theorizing, and in particular of theorizing in evolutionary biology, than the ...Author's Profile
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