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Comments on Some Recent Analyses of Functional Statements in Biology

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 March 2022

Kenneth K. Baublys
Kenneth K. Baublys*
Affiliation:
University of Lancaster
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Philosophy of Science , Volume 42 , Issue 4 , December 1975 , pp. 469 - 486
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Copyright © 1975 by the Philosophy of Science Association

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I am extremely grateful to this Journal's referees for helpful comments on an earlier version of this paper.

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