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Nicholas Rescher. A Useful Inheritance: Evolutionary Aspects of the Theory of Knowledge. Savage, MD: Rowman & Littlefield (1990), x + 138 pp., $31.50 (cloth).

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 April 2022

Stephen W. Ball
Stephen W. Ball*
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California Polytechnic State University
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Philosophy of Science , Volume 59 , Issue 2 , June 1992 , pp. 332 - 334
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Copyright © Philosophy of Science Association 1992

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