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A new semantics for the epistemology of geometry II: Epistemological completeness of Newton—Galilei and Einstein—Maxwell Theory

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Coleman, R.A., Korté, H. A new semantics for the epistemology of geometry II: Epistemological completeness of Newton—Galilei and Einstein—Maxwell Theory. Erkenntnis 42, 161–189 (1995). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01128806

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