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The computational and confirmational differences between the social and the physical sciences

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    Ronald Laymon

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I want to express my gratitude to the National Science Foundation (SES-8608167) and the Ohio State University for providing research funding for a larger project of which this paper forms a part. I would also like to thank the Bar-Hillel Colloquium for the History, Philosophy and Sociology of Science for having invited me to Israel in 1987 where I presented, to a very lively audience, an earlier version of this paper. Finally, my thanks go to Menachem Fisch, who was my commentator at the Bar-Hillel Colloquium, and to Jim Bogen for their encouragment and critical advice.

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Laymon, R. The computational and confirmational differences between the social and the physical sciences. Philosophia 22, 241–273 (1993). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02379647

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