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A commentary on Carl Hempel's [3], presented at the Washington University Memorial Symposium in Memory of Richard Rudner, my dear friend and inspired teacher.
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Leach, J. Instrumentalism and scientific skepticism. Synthese 46, 405–412 (1981). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01130051
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