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The critics who resolved to put the finalization thesis on trial were clearly aware that “underhand insults and malicious imputations” can be most effectively deployed in the guise of “strictly objective argument”. Two examples will show, however, that the “arguments” of our critics did not require the efforts of the press to turn them into insults and imputations in essence they were already such.
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Schäfer, W. (1983). The Finalization Debate: A Reply to Our Critics. In: Schäfer, W. (eds) Finalization in Science. Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science, vol 77. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-7080-9_14
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