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Kitts and Kitts and Caplan on Species

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 April 2022

David L. Hull
David L. Hull*
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University of Wisconsin—Milwaukee
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Philosophy of Science , Volume 48 , Issue 1 , March 1981 , pp. 141 - 152
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Copyright © 1981 by the Philosophy of Science Association

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I wish to thank Arthur Caplan, Michael Ghiselin, David Kitts, Sr. and Alex Rosenberg for reading and commenting on early versions of this paper. The research for this paper was supported in part by NSF grant SOC 75-03535 and a Guggenheim Fellowship for 1980–81.

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