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Swimming in Evidence: A Reply to Maher

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 April 2022

Peter Achinstein
Peter Achinstein*
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Department of Philosophy Johns Hopkins University
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‡Send reprint requests to the author, Department of Philosophy, 347 Gilman Hall, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21218–2690.
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Philosophy of Science , Volume 63 , Issue 2 , June 1996 , pp. 175 - 182
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Copyright © 1996 by the Philosophy of Science Association

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Footnotes

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Special thanks are due to Laura J. Snyder for helping me to stay afloat in the sea of evidence, and to Robert Rynasiewicz for trying to sink me.

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