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Models, Simulations, and Their Objects

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 September 2008

Sergio Sismondo
Sergio Sismondo
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Department of Philosophy Queen's University Kingston, Canada. K7L 3N6
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Science in Context , Volume 12 , Issue 2 , Summer 1999 , pp. 247 - 260
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1999

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