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In the course of preparing this comment I have come to realize that a large proportion of my philosophy-of-science classes, both as a student and as a teacher, have been devoted, in one way or another, to the discussion of Professor Hempel’s numerous papers. Contemporary philosophy of science is, to some extent, a comment on Hempel’s work.
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G. Hempel, “Studies in the Logic of Confirmation,” in: C. G. Hempel, Aspects of Scientific Explanation, New York: The Free Press, 1965, pp. 3–52.
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Ben-Menachem, Y. (1988). Limits of a Deductive Construal of the Function of Scientific Theories. In: Ullmann-Margalit, E. (eds) Science in Reflection. Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science, vol 110. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-2957-9_2
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