Can scientific theories be warranted with severity? Exchanges with Alan Chalmers

Error and Inference: Recent Exchanges on Experimental Reasoning, Reliability, and the Objectivity and Rationality of Science

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 73-87

  Mayo, Deborah G ^a  

^a VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 84860358045     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511657528     Document Type: Chapter

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