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The earliest ancestor of this paper was a talk I gave at the Canadian Society for the History and Philosophy of Science in 1974. In 1978 I commented on Colin Turbayne at the Rochester Conference honouring Lewis Beck's retirement. This led me to develop the arguments in Section I. The first written draft was in May 1982 and its first public presentation was at a conference at the University of Western Ontario in Spring of 1982.

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Harper, W. Kant on space, empirical realism and the foundations of geometry. Topoi 3, 143–161 (1984). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00149786

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