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Verisimilitude vs. legisimilitude

✍ Scribed by Ilkka Niiniluoto

Publisher
Springer Netherlands
Year
1983
Tongue
English
Weight
953 KB
Volume
42
Category
Article
ISSN
0039-3215

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