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This article has grown out of a paper read in November 1980 at a workshop held under the auspices of the Center for Philosophy of Science at the University of Pittsburgh. The present, much revised, version was written for inclusion in a volume, to be published by the University of California Press, which is to contain the proceedings of that workshop. Pending the completion of that project, which has been considerably delayed, the article appears here with the consent of the editors of the proceedings.
This paper is based upon work supported by National Science Foundation Grant No. SES 80-25399.
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Hempel, C.G. Provisoes: A problem concerning the inferential function of scientific theories. Erkenntnis 28, 147–164 (1988). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00166441
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