Reason and Chance in Scientific Discovery [Book Review]

Review of Metaphysics 12 (3):495-495 (1959)
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Taton's study is very poorly organized, aiming at no particular thesis. Nevertheless, the individual examples of reason and chance are intrinsically interesting, and many are made available for the first time in English.--R. F. T.

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