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  1. Dept. of History and Philosophy of Science, Indiana Univ., Bloomington, Ind., USA

    J. Alberto Coffa

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This paper was read at the Lecture Series organized by the Center for the Philosophy of Science at the University of Pittsburgh. I gratefully acknowledge comments by Professors A. Grünbaum, W. C. Salmon, G. Massey, N. D. Belnap, Jr., and T. M. Simpson.

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Coffa, J.A. Hempel's ambiguity. Synthese 28, 141–163 (1974). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00485232

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