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- 1977
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- book-chapter
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- 326-337
- Citations
- 148
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Herbert A. Simon
(1977).
Does Scientific Discovery Have a Logic?.
Boston studies in the philosophy of science
, 326-337.
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-9521-1_18
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- 10.1007/978-94-010-9521-1_18