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Discussion: Descent Systems and Ideal Language

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 March 2022

Rodney Needham
Rodney Needham*
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University of Oxford
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Philosophy of Science , Volume 27 , Issue 1 , January 1960 , pp. 96 - 101
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Copyright © 1959 by Philosophy of Science Association

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