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Advancing our understanding of understanding

Jan Faye: The nature of scientific thinking: On interpretation, explanation, and understanding. Basingstoke/New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014, xiv+333, $110.00 HB

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de Donato Rodríguez, X. Advancing our understanding of understanding. Metascience 24, 497–502 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11016-015-9992-1

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