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Fellow at the Netherlands Institute of Advanced Studies 1982/83. Preparatory research was performed in DFG-project Ba 678. I am indebted to U. Gähde, C. U. Moulines, F. Mühlhölzer, J. D. Sneed and W. Stegmüller for illuminating discussions and helpful remarks on the subject, and to Anne Simpson for correcting my English.
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Balzer, W. Theory and measurement. Erkenntnis 19, 3–25 (1983). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00174773
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