Testability and epistemic shifts in modern cosmology
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عنوان ژورنال: Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part B: Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics
سال: 2014
ISSN: 1355-2198
DOI: 10.1016/j.shpsb.2012.12.001