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How to Outsmart the Rules A Comment

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The Scientific Enterprise

Part of the book series: Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science ((BSPS,volume 146))

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Professor Smart is a gold miner, not a coal miner. He is thus in no danger of bringing coal anywhere. As for his gold, we had better recall that all that glitters is not gold. So let me try his metal.

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Edna Ullmann-Margalit

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Margalit, A. (1992). How to Outsmart the Rules A Comment. In: Ullmann-Margalit, E. (eds) The Scientific Enterprise. Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science, vol 146. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-2688-5_8

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