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Quine's philosophy of science

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  1. See Antony Flew, ‘Again the Paradigm’, inMind, Matter and Method (ed. by P.K. Feyerabend and G. Maxwell), Minneapolis 1966.

  2. See P.K. Feyerabend, ‘Problems of Empiricism’, inBeyond the Edge of Certainty (ed. by R. G. Colodny), Pittsburgh 1965, especially pp. 181, 220, 225.

  3. On this point see Marshall Spector, ‘Models and Theories’,British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 16 (1965) 121–142.

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  4. A. Grünbaum,Philosophical Problems of Space and Time, New York 1963, Chapter 4.

  5. See also W. V. Quine ‘Reply to Professor Marcus’,Synthese 13 (1961) 323–330, and discussion by Quine and othersibid. 14 (1962) 132–143. Quine's paper and the discussion can also be found inBoston Studies in the Philosophy of Science, vol. I (ed. by M. W. Wartofsky), Dordrecht, Holland, 1963.

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Smart, J.J.C. Quine's philosophy of science. Synthese 19, 3–13 (1968). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00568046

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