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1913. “On the Constitution of Atoms and Molecules”: Quantum Jumps and Epistemological Leaps

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I think in your endeavour to be clear you have a tendency to make your papers much too long, and a tendency to repeat your statements in different parts of the paper. I think that your paper really ought to be cut down, and I think this could be done without sacrificing anything to clearness. I do not know if you appreciate the fact that long papers have a way of frightening readers, who feel that they have not time to dip into them.

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    On Bohr’s philosophical background in general, see (Favrhold 1992).

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Plotnitsky, A. (2013). 1913. “On the Constitution of Atoms and Molecules”: Quantum Jumps and Epistemological Leaps. In: Niels Bohr and Complementarity. SpringerBriefs in Physics. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-4517-3_2

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