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Canada and Scientific Realism

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We flew from Frankfurt to Montreal on November 27th, 1966. Our arrival coincided with the first snowfall of the season. With our Delaware savings we rented, furnished, and equipped an apartment on the 20th floor of a newly but shoddily built tower near McGill University. From it we could see the mighty Saint Lawrence river and beyond, down to Vermont’s Blue Mountains.

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Bunge, M. (2016). Canada and Scientific Realism. In: Between Two Worlds . Springer Biographies. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-29251-9_8

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