Scientific Explanation and the Causal Structure of the World
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Princeton University Press, 2020.
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English
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9780691221489
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Wesley C. Salmon., & Wesley C. Salmon|AUTHOR. (2020). Scientific Explanation and the Causal Structure of the World . Princeton University Press.
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