Technological explanations: The relation between structure and function of technological objects

Techne: Research in Philosophy and Technology

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 124-134

  Kroes, Peter ^a  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

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