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A priori knowledge of the way the world works

James Robert Brown: The laboratory of the mind: Thought experiments in the natural sciences. 2nd Edn., New York: Routledge, 230pp, $34.95 PB

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Bishop, M. A priori knowledge of the way the world works. Metascience 21, 687–691 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11016-011-9631-4

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