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Future development of scientific structures closer to experiments: Response to F.A. Muller

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First of all, I agree with much of what F.A. Muller (Synthese, this issue, 2009) says in his article ‘Reflections on the revolution in Stanford’. And where I differ, the difference is on the decision of what direction of further development represents the best choice for the philosophy of science. I list my remarks as a sequence of topics.

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Suppes, P. Future development of scientific structures closer to experiments: Response to F.A. Muller. Synthese 183, 115–126 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-009-9670-1

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