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Let me first express my great appreciation to the editor and to the contributors of this volume. I had never expected to be so honored, and it has been a pleasure and a rewarding experience to read and reflect on each of these excellent essays.
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Burks, A.W. (1990). The Philosophy of Logical Mechanism. In: Salmon, M.H. (eds) The Philosophy of Logical Mechanism. Synthese Library, vol 206. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-0987-8_17
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