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The enterprise undertaken in this paper is a brief exploration of the epistemological status of the various kinds of sentences which typically appear in the body of anthropological studies. Since this analysis presupposes a view of what science is, a few remarks should be made by way of preface in order to make this view explicit. No attempt will be made, however, to defend it.1
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Collins, P.W. (1974). The Present Status of Anthropology as an Explanatory Science. In: Seeger, R.J., Cohen, R.S. (eds) Philosophical Foundations of Science. Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science, vol 11. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-2126-5_19
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