Aspects of Scientific Explanation: And Other Essays in the Philosophy of Science, Volume 2 |
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Contents
Studies in the Logic of Confirmation | 3 |
Postscript 1964 on Confirmation | 47 |
Inductive Inconsistencies | 53 |
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