Ontic conception and scientific explanation in biomedicine: The case of the anatomical doctrine

Epistemologia

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 285-316

  Toni, Roberto ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PARMA   (Italy)

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