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Reply to my Critics: On explanations by constraint

Marc Lange: Because without cause: Non-causal explanation in science and mathematics. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017, xxii+489pp, $74.00 HB

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Lange, M. Reply to my Critics: On explanations by constraint. Metascience 27, 27–36 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11016-017-0252-4

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