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This Paper is Dedicated to Marjorie Grene, in Honor of her 80th Birthday
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Reed, E.S. Knowers talking about the known: Ecological realism as a philosophy of science. Synthese 92, 9–23 (1992). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00413739
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