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Healey, R. (2006). Symmetry and the Scope of Scientific Realism. In: Demopoulos, W., Pitowsky, I. (eds) Physical Theory and its Interpretation. The Western Ontario Series in Philosophy of Science, vol 72. Springer, Dordrecht . https://doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-4876-9_7
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