Popper and the 7th Approximation: The Problem of Taxonomy

Dialectica 34 (2):129-154 (1980)
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SummaryThe conspicuous role of taxonomy and debates about taxonomy in the well‐established physical science of pedology throws into question the Popperian rejection of definition and classification

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10.1111/j.1746-8361.1980.tb00769.x

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