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Michael Faraday’s Thought: Discovery or Revelation?

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During my time of study with Heinz Post, among many things which I will always appreciate, I learnt the value of making demarcations, not arbitrarily, but by searching for the relevant criteria by means of which lateral impressionistic thinking could be given communicable structure and identifiable form.

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Crawford, E. (1993). Michael Faraday’s Thought: Discovery or Revelation?. In: French, S., Kamminga, H. (eds) Correspondence, Invariance and Heuristics. Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science, vol 148. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-1185-2_5

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