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Peter Vickers: Understanding Inconsistent Science

Oxford University Press, Oxford 2013, 288 pp, £40.00, ISBN: 978-0-19-969202-6

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Brown, B. Peter Vickers: Understanding Inconsistent Science. J Gen Philos Sci 46, 413–418 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10838-015-9299-3

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