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Successful Seeing as an Unhappy Substitute for Seeing Success - Robert Hudson, Seeing Things: The Philosophy of Reliable Observation. Oxford: Oxford University Press (2014), 298 pp., £31.49 (cloth).

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2022

Robert Klee
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Philosophy of Science , Volume 82 , Issue 2 , April 2015 , pp. 306 - 312
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