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Landry, E. (2006). Intuition, Objectivity and Structure. In: Carson, E., Huber, R. (eds) Intuition and the Axiomatic Method. The Western Ontario Series in Philosophy of Science, vol 70. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-4040-7_7

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