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Modelling Conceptual Revolutions

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 April 2010

Paul Thagard
Paul Thagard
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University of Waterloo
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Dialogue: Canadian Philosophical Review / Revue canadienne de philosophie , Volume 35 , Issue 1 , Winter 1996 , pp. 155 - 159
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Copyright © Canadian Philosophical Association 1996

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