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Geometry, relativity, and (hidden) philosophy

David Malament: Topics in the foundations of general relativity and Newtonian gravitation theory. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2012, xii+368pp, $55.00 HB

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Grammenos, T. Geometry, relativity, and (hidden) philosophy. Metascience 24, 141–145 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11016-014-9969-5

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