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"""...an original and important contribution to the debate. It is a valuable attempt to give rigorous content to the notion of novel prediction, which is often informally cited as a reason for belief in scientific theories.""--TLS ""The beauty of this book...lies in the slender basis from which it deals with a host of deep and interesting problems....it deftly handles a large array of issues...Jarrett Leplin is admirably forthright.""--The Journal of Philosophy ""...an original and important contribution to the debate. It is a valuable attempt to give rigorous content to the notion of novel prediction, which is often informally cited as a reason for belief in scientific theories.""--TLS ""The beauty of this book...lies in the slender basis from which it deals with a host of deep and interesting problems....it deftly handles a large array of issues...Jarrett Leplin is admirably forthright.""--The Journal of Philosophy"

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...an original and important contribution to the debate. It is a valuable attempt to give rigorous content to the notion of novel prediction, which is often informally cited as a reason for belief in scientific theories. TLS The beauty of this book...lies in the slender basis from which it deals with a host of deep and interesting problems...it deftly handles a large array of issues...Jarrett Leplin is admirably forthright. The Journal of Philosophy

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Jarrett Leplin is professor of Philosophy at the University of North carolina, Greensboro.

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