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Invention or Discovery?

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The author offers a short comment on the philosophical question: Did Carl Adam invent Petri nets or did he discover them?

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van Hee, K.M. (2019). Invention or Discovery?. In: Reisig, W., Rozenberg, G. (eds) Carl Adam Petri: Ideas, Personality, Impact. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-96154-5_4

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