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This paper is a critical response to ‘Scientific Change: Philosophical Models and Historical Research’, by Larry Laudan, Arthur Donovan, Rachel Laudan, Peter Barker, Harold Brown, Jarrett Leplin, Paul Thagard, and Steve Wykstra, this issue, 141–223. I thank Marcello Pera for helpful discussion of these issues. However, he defends a position quite distinct from mine.
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Nickles, T. Remarks on the use of history as evidence. Synthese 69, 253–266 (1986). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00413983
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