Certainty and domain-independence in the sciences of complexity: A critique of James Franklin's account of formal science

Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 699-720

  De Laplante, Kevin ^a  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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