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Discussion: Is Einstein a Positivist?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 March 2022

Robert Neidorf
Robert Neidorf*
Affiliation:
St. John's college
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Philosophy of Science , Volume 30 , Issue 2 , April 1963 , pp. 173 - 188
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Copyright © Philosophy of Science Association 1963

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The following discussion is a revision of part of the first chapter of a doctoral dissertation presented at Yale University (1959) under the guidance of F. S. C. Northrop.

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