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How theoretical physics makes progress

Nicholas Maxwell: Understanding scientific progress: aim-oriented empiricism. St. Paul, MN: Paragon House, 2017, 232 pp, $24.95PB

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Mizrahi, M. How theoretical physics makes progress. Metascience 27, 203–207 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11016-017-0283-x

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