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Notes

  1. Dawid [1].

  2. Rickles [2].

  3. Like Peter Woit [3].

  4. Dawid [1, pp. 31 ff].

  5. Ibid., p. 80.

  6. Ibid., p. 89.

  7. Ibid., p. 112.

  8. Dawid [1, p. 80].

  9. Ibid., p. 4.

  10. Ibid., p. 129.

  11. Ibid., p. 156.

  12. Foundations of Physics recently published a Special Issue on string theory, which features articles written by various proponents of the di erent sides of the debate: Haro et al. [4].

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We’d like to thank Carlo Rovelli, Dennis Dieks and Gerard ’t Hooft for their insightful comments on the matters discussed in this review.

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Benedictus, F. String Theory & the Scientific Method. Found Phys 44, 589–593 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10701-014-9794-0

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