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7 - Popper’s Paradoxical Pursuit of Natural Philosophy

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 July 2016

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Nicholas Maxwell
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Jeremy Shearmur  and
Geoffrey Stokes
Jeremy Shearmur
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Australian National University, Canberra
Geoffrey Stokes
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Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology
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The Cambridge Companion to Popper , pp. 170 - 207
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Print publication year: 2016

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