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Optimality and Aristotle's concept of final cause

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Commentary onSchoemakerPaul J. H.The quest for optimality: A positive heuristic of science?BBS 14:205–245.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 February 2010

Howard Rachlin
Howard Rachlin
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Psychology Department, State University of New York, Stony Brook, NY 11794 Electronic mail: hrachlin@psych1.psy.sunysb.edu
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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 16 , Issue 3 , September 1993, pp. 623 - 625
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1993

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