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Realism and the Epistemological Significance of Inference to the Best Explanation1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 April 2010

Hamid Vahid
Hamid Vahid
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Institute for Studies in Theoretical Physics and Mathematics, Tehran, Iran
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Dialogue: Canadian Philosophical Review / Revue canadienne de philosophie , Volume 40 , Issue 3 , Summer 2001 , pp. 487 - 508
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