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Donald Gillies, Artificial Intelligence and Scientific Method, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996, xiii + 176 pp., $65.00 (cloth), ISBN 0-19-875158-3, $21.95 (paper), ISBN 0-19-875159-1.

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Donald Gillies, Artificial Intelligence and Scientific Method, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996, xiii + 176 pp., $65.00 (cloth), ISBN 0-19-875158-3, $21.95 (paper), ISBN 0-19-875159-1.. Minds and Machines 10, 301–304 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1017162829874

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