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Scientific Realism: A Critical Reappraisal - The Western Ontario Series in Philosophy of Science N. Rescher Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1987 edition
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Scientific Realism: A Critical Reappraisal - The Western Ontario Series in Philosophy of Science
N. Rescher
Recognizing that there are physical objects such as cats and triangular objects and red tomatoes, the medievels debated whether such "abstract objects" as cathood and triangularity and redness also exist by way of having a reality indepen dent of the concretely real things that exhibit them.
184 pages, black & white illustrations
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