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8 - Metaphysics and Realism

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 July 2016

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Alan Musgrave
Edited by
Jeremy Shearmur  and
Geoffrey Stokes
Jeremy Shearmur
Affiliation:
Australian National University, Canberra
Geoffrey Stokes
Affiliation:
Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology
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The Cambridge Companion to Popper , pp. 208 - 229
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2016

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