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    William Whewell, natural theology and the philosophy of science in mid nineteenth century Britain.Richard Yeo - 1979 - Annals of Science 36 (5):493-516.
    (1979). William Whewell, natural theology and the philosophy of science in mid nineteenth century Britain. Annals of Science: Vol. 36, No. 5, pp. 493-516.
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  2. Evidence, explanation, and realism: essays in the philosophy of science.Peter Achinstein - 2010 - New York: Oxford University Press.
    The essays in this volume address three fundamental questions in the philosophy of science: What is required for some fact to be evidence for a scientific ...
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    Humanizing Science and Philosophy of Science: George Sarton, Contextualist Philosophies of Science, and the Indigenous/Science Project.Alison Wylie - 2022 - Canadian Journal of Philosophy 52 (3):256-278.
    A century ago historian of science George Sarton argued that “science is our greatest treasure, but it needs to be humanized or it will do more harm than good”. The systematic cultivation of an “historical spirit,” a philosophical appreciation of the dynamic nature of scientific inquiry, and a recognition that science is irreducibly a “collective enterprise” was, on Sarton’s account, crucial to the humanizing mission he advocated. These elements of Sarton’s program are more relevant than ever as (...)
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  4. Consciousness as a scientific concept: a philosophy of science perspective.Elizabeth Irvine - 2012 - Springer.
    The source of endless speculation and public curiosity, our scientific quest for the origins of human consciousness has expanded along with the technical capabilities of science itself and remains one of the key topics able to fire public as much as academic interest. Yet many problematic issues, identified in this important new book, remain unresolved. Focusing on a series of methodological difficulties swirling around consciousness research, the contributors to this volume suggest that ‘consciousness’ is, in fact, not a wholly (...)
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    Philosophy of Open Science.Sabina Leonelli - unknown
    In response to broad transformations brought about by the digitalization, globalization, and commodification of research processes, the Open Science [OS] movement aims to foster the wide dissemination, scrutiny and re-use of research components for the good of science and society. This Element examines the role played by OS principles and practices within contemporary research and how this relates to the epistemology of science. After reviewing some of the concerns that have prompted calls for more openness, I highlight (...)
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  6. New Philosophy of Social Science.James Bohman - 1997 - Human Studies 20 (4):429-440.
    This article defends methodological and theoretical pluralism in the social sciences. While pluralistic, such a philosophy of social science is both pragmatic and normative. Only by facing the problems of such pluralism, including how to resolve the potential conflicts between various methods and theories, is it possible to discover appropriate criteria of adequacy for social scientific explanations and interpretations. So conceived, the social sciences do not give us fixed and universal features of the social world, but rather contribute (...)
     
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  7. Race and medicine in light of the new mechanistic philosophy of science.Kalewold Hailu Kalewold - 2020 - Biology and Philosophy 35 (4):1-22.
    Racial disparities in health outcomes have recently become a flashpoint in the debate about the value of race as a biological concept. What role, if any, race has in the etiology of disease is a philosophically and scientifically contested topic. In this article, I expand on the insights of the new mechanistic philosophy of science to defend a mechanism discovery approach to investigating epidemiological racial disparities. The mechanism discovery approach has explanatory virtues lacking in the populational approach typically (...)
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  8. ‘This inscrutable principle of an original organization’: epigenesis and ‘looseness of fit’ in Kant’s philosophy of science.John H. Zammito - 2003 - Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A 34 (1):73-109.
    Kant’s philosophy of science takes on sharp contour in terms of his interaction with the practicing life scientists of his day, particularly Johann Blumenbach and the latter’s student, Christoph Girtanner, who in 1796 attempted to synthesize the ideas of Kant and Blumenbach. Indeed, Kant’s engagement with the life sciences played a far more substantial role in his transcendental philosophy than has been recognized hitherto. The theory of epigenesis, especially in light of Kant’s famous analogy in the first (...)
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  9. Mach Revisited: A Reinterpretation of Mach's Philosophy of Science, and of His Opposition to Atomism.Hazim B. Murad - 1990 - Dissertation, University of Pittsburgh
    In this dissertation, I examine the origins and nature of Mach's philosophy, or rather theory, of science. I show how it relates to, and is informed by, his own works in physiology, psychophysics, physics, and the history and psychology of science. I argue that Mach's theory of science grew out of his concern to provide a single, unified--albeit coherent--perspective on both the life and physical sciences. Corresponding to this conceptual unification of perspectives in the different branches (...)
     
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    The 'New' History of Science: Implications for Philosophy of Science.Rachel Laudan - 1992 - PSA: Proceedings of the Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association 1992:476 - 481.
    This paper surveys recent trends in the history of science, using quotations from works published in the last decade. It suggests that philosophers of science have not yet come to terms with those changes, indicates which might or might not lead to productive interchange, and concludes that history and philosophy of science are now further apart than at any time since the early 1960's.
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    Constructive empiricism: epistemology and the philosophy of science.Paul Dicken - 2010 - New York: Palgrave-Macmillan.
    Constructive empiricism is not just a view regarding the aim of science; it is also a view regarding the epistemological framework in which one should debate the aim of science. This is the focus of this book -- not with scientific truth, but with how one should argue about scientific truth.
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    Science Education and Culture: The Contribution of History and Philosophy of Science.Fabio Bevilacqua, Enrico Giannetto & Michael R. Matthews - 2001 - Springer.
    This anthology contains selected papers from the 'Science as Culture' conference held at Lake Como, and Pavia University Italy, 15-19 September 1999. The conference, attended by about 220 individuals from thirty countries, was a joint venture of the International History, Philosophy and Science Teaching Group (its fifth conference) and the History of Physics and Physics Teaching Division of the European Physical Society (its eighth conference). The magnificient Villa Olmo, on the lakeshore, provided a memorable location for the (...)
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    Is the History of Science Relevant to the Philosophy of Science?Marga Vicedo - 1992 - PSA: Proceedings of the Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association 1992:490 - 496.
    Philosophers have started to use the history of science to address some of their philosophical concerns. In this paper I point out some aspects of contemporary practice that require further consideration in order to achieve a more fruitful integration of history and philosophy: one, the limitations of using case studies; two, the need to articulate how we should use history as evidence. Specifically, I argue that to make progress in the debate about realism we will have to pay (...)
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    Deep Learning Applied to Scientific Discovery: A Hot Interface with Philosophy of Science.Louis Vervoort, Henry Shevlin, Alexey A. Melnikov & Alexander Alodjants - 2023 - Journal for General Philosophy of Science / Zeitschrift für Allgemeine Wissenschaftstheorie 54 (2):339-351.
    We review publications in automated scientific discovery using deep learning, with the aim of shedding light on problems with strong connections to philosophy of science, of physics in particular. We show that core issues of philosophy of science, related, notably, to the nature of scientific theories; the nature of unification; and of causation loom large in scientific deep learning. Therefore, advances in deep learning could, and ideally should, have impact on philosophy of science, and (...)
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    The natural philosophy of the Greeks: an introduction to the history and philosophy of science.Robert A. Di Curcio - 1975 - Nantucket, Mass.: Aeternium.
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    Argumentation Theory and the Recent Philosophy of Science.William Rehg - unknown
    The thesis of my paper is that argumentation theory provides a promising heuristic framework for addressing issues raised by the rationality debates in the philosophy of science, in particular the issues connected with scientific controversies over the appraisal and choice of competing theories. The first part of the paper grounds this thesis historically. In criticizing the logical empiricists, Thomas Kuhn set the stage for the subsequent opposition between a normative, anti-sociological philosophy of science and a descriptive, (...)
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    History and philosophy of science rapprochement: Shared methodological framework.Dominika A. Yaneva - 1995 - Journal for General Philosophy of Science / Zeitschrift für Allgemeine Wissenschaftstheorie 26 (1):143 - 152.
    The paper intends to identify some particular basic assumptions, approaches and means of proceeding, which are spontaneously shared by philosophers, sociologists and historians of science, besides the common interchange of meta-notions describing science. To this end, the specific subject matter, scope, meta-cognitive goals and methodological background of each of the three domains of science study is first outlined. Only two shared proceedings are further discussed in details: the objective attitude, called 'playing a stranger', and the historiographers' involvement (...)
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    Frames and concepts in the philosophy of science.Stephan Kornmesser - 2018 - European Journal for Philosophy of Science 8 (2):225-251.
    In the philosophy of science, the frame model is used in order to represent and analyze scientific concepts and conceptual change. However, the potential of the frame model is far from being fully exploited: Up to now, the frame model is only applied to a rather small set of different kinds of concepts and important advantages of the frame model for reconstructing and analyzing concepts have been neglected. In this article, we will essentially extend the frame model in (...)
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    Clio meets minerva: Interrelations between history and philosophy of science.Barbara Tuchanska - 2002 - „Pantaneto Forum”,Http (issue 13).
    The idea that science is historical is almost a cliché nowadays. The historical dimensions of science have begun to be appreciated by philosophers of science, for some through the work of Kuhn, and for others through Popper and Lakatos. Does this mean that contemporary philosophy of science understands the historical nature of science? Let me begin with a provocative negative answer. My reason is not the obvious one, namely, that there are several competing models (...)
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    Proceedings of the Boston Colloquium for the Philosophy of Science 1964/1966: In Memory of Norwood Russell Hanson.Norwood Russell Hanson, R. S. Cohen & Marx W. Wartofsky - 1967 - Springer.
    This third volume of Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science contains papers which are based upon Colloquia from 1964 to 1966. In most cases, they have been substantially modified subsequent to presentation and discussion. Once again we publish work which goes beyond technical analysis of scientific theories and explanations in order to include philo sophical reflections upon the history of science and also upon the still problematic interactions between metaphysics and science. The philo sophical history (...)
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    Feminism in philosophy of science: Making sense of contingency and constraint.Alison Wylie - 2000 - In Miranda Fricker & Jennifer Hornsby (eds.), The Cambridge Companion to Feminism in Philosophy. Cambridge University Press. pp. 166--184.
  22. EPSA 15 Selected Papers, European Studies in Philosophy of Science, Vol. 5.Michela Massimi, Jan-Willem Romeijn & G. Schurz (eds.) - 2017 - Springer.
    This edited collection showcases some of the best recent research in the philosophy of science. It comprises of thematically arranged papers presented at the 5th conference of the European Philosophy of Science Association (EPSA15), covering a broad variety of topics within general philosophy of science, and philosophical issues pertaining to specific sciences. The collection will appeal to researchers with an interest in the philosophical underpinnings of their own discipline, and to philosophers who wish to (...)
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    How Foundational Work in Mathematics Can Be Relevant to Philosophy of Science.John P. Burgess - 1992 - PSA: Proceedings of the Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association 1992:433 - 441.
    Foundational work in mathematics by some of the other participants in the symposium helps towards answering the question whether a heterodox mathematics could in principle be used as successfully as is orthodox mathematics in scientific applications. This question is turn, it will be argued, is relevant to the question how far current science is the way it is because the world is the way it is, and how far because we are the way we are, which is a central (...)
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    Systems thinking, complexity and the philosophy of science.Gerald Midgley - 2006 - Emergence: Complexity and Organization 10 (4):55-73.
    It is usually assumed in debates about systems thinking, complexity and the philosophy of science that science is primarily about observation. However, the starting point for this paper is intervention, defined as purposeful action by an agent to create change. While some authors suggest that intervention and observation are opposites, it is argued here that observation should be viewed as just one type of intervention. We should therefore welcome scientific techniques of observation into a pluralistic set of (...)
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    Theology and the Philosophy of Science.Donald Wiebe - 1978 - Philosophical Studies (Dublin) 26:210-218.
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    Paving ways - the pittsburgh center for the philosophy of science and the case of philosophy of science in Israel.Giora Hon - unknown
    A view of the Center for Philosophy of Science from an Israeli perspective.
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    Philosophy of Anthropology and Sociology: A volume in Handbook of the Philosophy of Science.Stephen Turner & Mark W. Risjord (eds.) - 2007 - Elsevier.
    This volume concerns philosophical issues that arise from the practice of anthropology and sociology. The essays cover a wide range of issues, including traditional questions in the philosophy of social science as well as those specific to these disciplines. Authors attend to the historical development of the current debates and set the stage for future work.
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    After Eurocentrism: Challenges for the Philosophy of Science.Sandra Harding - 1992 - PSA: Proceedings of the Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association 1992:311 - 319.
    Two themes in postcolonial science studies pose unusual challenges for philosophers of science. According to these accounts, the cognitive/technical core of Western sciences, not just their technologies, applications, and social institutions, is permeated by distinctive cultural and political commitments. In this sense, Western sciences are "ethnosciences." Moreover, these analysts want to delink their societies' scientific and technological projects from the West's in order to develop fully modern sciences within their own culturally distinctive scientific traditions. This paper suggests some (...)
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  29. Navigating the Social Turn in Philosophy of Science.Helen E. Longino - 2009 - Filozofia 64 (4):312-323.
    Over the last three decades the role of social values in science has been the topic issue in the disputes of the philosophers of science against the representatives of science studies. Due to the key status of sciences in developed countries and societies it is necessary, so the author, not only to acknowledge, that cognitive and epistemic practices have their social dimensions, but also to make the practices of the research communities themselves open for critical examination from (...)
     
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    Whitehead's philosophy of science in the light of wordsworth's poetry.Mary A. Wyman - 1956 - Philosophy of Science 23 (4):283-296.
    Admirers of Whitehead who know him best have suggested that Wordsworth had possibly a greater influence upon him than anyone except Plato. Nowhere apparently has Whitehead admitted such an influence, as he has that of Plato and Locke and that of William James, Bergson, and Alexander among traditional and contemporary philosophers But he had a predilection for poetry, and attributes to the great poets philosophical importance. They capture uniquely, he says, “a fragrance of experience”; and “… express deep intuitions of (...)
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  31. Nietzsche's Philosophy of Science: Reflecting Science on the Ground of Art and Life.Babette E. Babich - 1994 - Journal of Nietzsche Studies 9:174-178.
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    (2 other versions)Philosophy of social science.Alexander Rosenberg - 1988 - Boulder: Westview Press.
    This is an expanded and thoroughly revised edition of the widely adopted introduction to the philosophical foundations of the human sciences. Ranging from cultural anthropology to mathematical economics, Alexander Rosenberg leads the reader through behaviorism, naturalism, interpretativism about human action, and macrosocial scientific perspectives, illuminating the motivation and strategy of each. Rewritten throughout to increase accessibility, this new edition retains the remarkable achievement of revealing the social sciences' enduring relation to the fundamental problems of philosophy. It includes new discussions (...)
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    Locke’s Philosophy of Science and Knowledge.James M. Humber - 1971 - Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 32 (4):579-580.
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    Contextualizing the philosophy of science education: Insight from China.Eryong Xue & Jian Li - 2024 - Educational Philosophy and Theory 56 (10):946-955.
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    Return to Scientific Practice: A New Reflection of Philosophy of Science.Tong Wu - 2017 - New York: Routledge. Edited by Tong Wu.
    This book is a result from a collective study on philosophy of scientific practice, which began around 2002 and still ongoing. There is an apparently increasing interest in scientific practice, influenced by the historicistic philosophy of science and the sociology of scientific knowledge. Prof. WU Tong and his research group believe that it is necessary for PSP to turn from the theory-dominant position to the practice dominance. PSP has also put forward the possibility of reinterpreting the epistemic (...)
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    Locke's Philosophy of Science and Knowledge: A Consideration of Some Aspects of An Essay Concerning Human Understanding.John W. Yolton - 1972 - Philosophical Quarterly 22 (88):269-271.
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    Recent publications on the philosophy of science.J. H. Woodger - 1952 - British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 3 ([9/12]):294.
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    Philosophy of Science: A Very Short Introduction.Hendrik van der Breggen - 2003 - Philosophia Christi 5 (1):314-318.
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    The history of physics and the philosophy of science.Armin Teske - 1972 - Warszawa,: Zakład Narodowy im. Ossolińskich [Oddz. w Warszawie].
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    The Kaleidoscope of Science: The Israel Colloquium: Studies in History, Philosophy, and Sociology of Science Volume 1.Edna Ullmann-Margalit (ed.) - 1986 - Springer.
    This collection is the first proceedings volume of the lectures delivered within the framework of the Israel Colloquium for the History, Philosophy and Sociology of Science, in its year of inauguration 1981-82. It thus marks the beginning of a new venture. Rather than attempting to express an ideology of the l}nity of science, this collection in fact aims at presenting a kaleidoscopic picture of the variety of views about science and within science. Three main disciplines (...)
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    Reading Feyerabend between Philosophy of Science, Hermeneutics – and God.Babette Babich - 2024 - Epistemology and Philosophy of Science 61 (3):120-140.
    This essay seeks to make the case for reading hermeneutic philosophy of science with Feyerabend. In addition, there is the question of science, as Nietzsche raises this question along with Feyerabend’s programmatic recommendations for traditional philosophy of science. Including a discussion of method in history as in theology and philology, including Nietzsche’s hermeneutics, this essay reviews Feyerabend’s exchanges with Lakatos along with the resistance of mainstream philosophy of science to hermeneutics as such. A (...)
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    Econometric Methodology Ii the Role of the Philosophy of Science.S. Cook - 1996 - Department of Economics, University of Southampton.
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    Presuppositions of Science and the Philosophy of Nature.A. G. M. Van Melsen - 1953 - Proceedings of the XIth International Congress of Philosophy 6:26-31.
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    Islamic philosophy of religion: synthesis of science religion and philosophy.J. I. Laliwala - 2005 - New Delhi: Sarup & Sons.
    Definition and Meaning of the Islamic Philosophy of Religion Difference between Islamic Philosophy and Muslim Philosophy There is a difference between ...
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    Philosophy of science and its discontents.Steve Fuller - 1989 - Boulder: Westview Press.
    The most important and exciting recent development in the philosophy of science is its merging with the sociology of scientific knowledge. Here is the first text book to make this development available.
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  46. Science, understanding, and truth: (a study of the meaning variance problem in the philosophy of science).R. D. Gunaratne - 1980 - [Colombo]: Ministry of Higher Education, Republic of Sri Lanka.
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    Psychiatry and Philosophy of Science * By R. COOPER. [REVIEW]R. V. Cooper - 2009 - Analysis 69 (1):195-197.
    The key objectives of this book are to demonstrate the applicability of issues in the philosophy of science to problems in psychiatry and to show how the conceptual issues raised by psychiatry should be considered more closely by philosophers of science. These are worthy aims: the philosophy of psychiatry needs to draw more thoughtfully upon contemporary philosophical debates and stimulating interest within the philosophy of science is a good way to do this.Cooper's book succeeds (...)
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    A preliminary application of frame-theory to the philosophy of science: The phlogiston-oxygen case.Gerhard Schurz & Ioannis Votsis - unknown
    In the first part of this paper we investigate how scientific theories can be represented by frames. Different kinds of scientific theories can be distinguished in terms of the systematic power of their frames. In the second part we outline the central questions and goals of our research project. In the third and final part of this paper we show that frame-representation is a useful tool in the comparison of the theories of phlogiston and oxygen, despite those theories being traditionally (...)
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    Enfoque biológico a la filosofía de la ciencia / A biological approach to the philosophy of science.Gonzalo Munévar - 2007 - Eidos: Revista de Filosofía de la Universidad Del Norte 7:110-127.
    SPANISH: La filosofía se resiste a extender al hombre estilos de explicación que funcionan bien en la investigación de la naturaleza sin tener en cuenta que también somos parte de ella. Al tenerlo en cuenta, sin embargo, hacemos posible la revitalización de la filosofía y quizá hasta la solución, de sus problemas más importantes. Las ciencias neuronales en un contexto evolutivo transforman, por ejemplo, los problemas del realismo y de la racionalidad científica. Al considerar que nuestras estructuras cerebrales –y por (...)
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  50. Philosophy of Science. European Studies in Philosophy of Science, vol 9.Alexander Christian, David Hommen, Gerhard Schurz & N. Retzlaff (eds.) - 2018 - Springer.
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