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Debate about Prof. W. F. Wertheim’s Pre-Advice on “Aspects of Freedom and Restriction in Science”

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What I appreciated in Prof. Wertheim’s introduction is that, according to the pre-adviser, within the realm of science only the criterion of true or false should count, and that tuth should not be violated for the sake of considerations of utility.

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© 1955 Martinus Nijhoff, The Hague, Netherlands

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Plattel, M.G. (1955). Debate about Prof. W. F. Wertheim’s Pre-Advice on “Aspects of Freedom and Restriction in Science”. In: Freedom and Restriction in Science and its Aspects in Society. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-9099-2_12

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