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Eddington was not unmindful of the charge that there is no ‘philosophy of science’ but only particular philosophies of certain scientists; but he insisted that there is a single body of material in present-day science which does afford the basis for a philosophy of science.
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Yolton, J.W. (1960). Scientific Epistemology. In: The Philosophy of Science of A. S. Eddington. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-1007-3_4
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