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Models and Analogies: A Reply to Girill

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 March 2022

Peter Achinstein
Peter Achinstein*
Affiliation:
The Johns Hopkins University
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Philosophy of Science , Volume 39 , Issue 2 , June 1972 , pp. 235 - 240
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Copyright © 1972 by The Philosophy of Science Association

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