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Resisting Scientific Realism, by K. Brad Wray

Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK, 2018, Pp. xii + 224

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Shech, E. Resisting Scientific Realism, by K. Brad Wray. Philosophia 48, 861–866 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11406-019-00104-5

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