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I am grateful to Peter Achinstein, Don Howard, and the other participants at the conference, ‘The Role of Experiments in Scientific Change’, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 30 March to 1 April, 1990, for helpful discussion, and especially to Ron Laymon for his discussion comments presented at the conference on an earlier version of this paper.
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Norton, J.D. Science and certainty. Synthese 99, 3–22 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01064528
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