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The Difference Between Answering a ‘Why’ Question and Answering a ‘How Much’ Question

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  1. University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    Marcel Boumans

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  1. University of Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany

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  2. University of Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany

    Günter Küppers

  3. GEMAS, Paris, France

    Terry Shinn

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Boumans, M. (2006). The Difference Between Answering a ‘Why’ Question and Answering a ‘How Much’ Question. In: Lenhard, J., Küppers, G., Shinn, T. (eds) Simulation. Sociology of the Sciences Yearbook, vol 25. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-5375-4_7

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