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The present brief paper makes an attempt to formulate some historical types of the standards of rationality applied in science, and to define them by means of the concept of symmetry in the form of certain principles of symmetry based on the principle of symmetry, worded by P. Curie.
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Tammaru, J. (2001). Symmetry and Rationality. In: Vihalemm, R. (eds) Estonian Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science. Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science, vol 219. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-0672-9_13
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