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Valuation and Acceptance of Scientific Hypotheses
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 14 March 2022
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The author wishes to express his thanks to Prof. C. G. Hempel, at whose suggestion this paper was written, and to Dr. Abner Shimony, for their helpful criticism.
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