How simplicity helps you find the truth without pointing at it

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Authors Kevin T. Kelly

Publication date 29 April 2008

zbMATH Keywords

philosophy of science

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Philosophical and critical aspects of logic and foundations (03A05)

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