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This chapter contains a reprint of the first half (entitled “Positivistic Geometry”) of the paper read at the Mach Symposium in 1966 (See Chapter 9).

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Menger, K. (1979). Geometry and Positivism a Probabilistic Microgeometry. In: Selected Papers in Logic and Foundations, Didactics, Economics. Vienna Circle Collection, vol 10. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-9347-1_23

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