Optimality modeling and explanatory generality

Philosophy of Science

Volumn 74, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 680-691

  Potochnik, Angela ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 46649102634     PISSN: 00318248     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/525613     Document Type: Conference Paper

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