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Alongside [37] these schools, a fourth arose after the seventeenth century, the empiricist school.
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[Since Duhem’s mixte and mélange have been preserved in the English as ‘mixt’ and ‘mixture’ respectively, his mixtion, which appears for the first time here will be tracked in the English by `miction’, even though this is, unlike the French, an antiquated term.]
It is the size it is because it is the size it is said to be]
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Duhem, P. (2002). The Notion of a Mixt in the Eighteenth Century Up to the Chemical Revolution: The Empiricist School. In: Mixture and Chemical Combination. Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science, vol 223. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-2292-6_4
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