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References
- a b c d e f g Barseghyan, Hakob. (2015) The Laws of Scientific Change. Springer.
- ^ Vickers, John. (2014) The Problem of Induction. In Zalta (Ed.) (2016). Retrieved from https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/induction-problem/.
