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The Metaphysics of Squaring Scientific Realism with Referential Indeterminacy

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McGOWAN, M.K. The Metaphysics of Squaring Scientific Realism with Referential Indeterminacy. Erkenntnis 50, 83–90 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1005424421707

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