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Objectivity and rationality in epistemology and education: Scheffler's middle road

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Neiman, A., Siegel, H. Objectivity and rationality in epistemology and education: Scheffler's middle road. Synthese 94, 55–83 (1993). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01064572

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