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Discussion Review: Laudan's Progress and its Problems

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 April 2022

Ernan McMullin
Ernan McMullin*
Affiliation:
University of Notre Dame
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Philosophy of Science , Volume 46 , Issue 4 , December 1979 , pp. 623 - 644
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Copyright © Philosophy of Science Association 1979

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I am grateful to Dr. Laudan who helped me eliminate some errors of interpretation and of historical detail from the first draft of the paper.

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