Simplicity is not truth-indicative

Worldviews, Science and us: Philosophy and Complexity

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 65-80

  Edmonds, Bruce ^a  

^a MANCHESTER METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

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DOI: 10.1142/9789812707420_0005     Document Type: Chapter

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