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Metaphysics, prescription and methodological disagreement

A comment on Mathias Frisch’s Causal reasoning in physics

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Reutlinger, A. Metaphysics, prescription and methodological disagreement. Metascience 24, 351–372 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11016-015-0011-3

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