Layered history: Styles of reasoning as stratified conditions of possibility

Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A

Volumn 43, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 619-627

  Elwick, James ^a  

^a YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Big picture; Context; Historiography; Ian Hacking; Possibility; Styles of reasoning

Indexed keywords

EID: 84870247751     PISSN: 00393681     EISSN: 18792510     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.shpsa.2012.07.004     Document Type: Article

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