Indispensability and explanation: an overview and introduction
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instance of: scholarly article
title: Indispensability and explanation: an overview and introduction
zbMATH Open document ID: 1357.00050
published in: Synthese
publication date: 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 00B25
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 03-06
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 00A30
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 03A05
zbMATH DE Number: 6694305
MaRDI profile type: Publication
full work available at URL: s11229-015-0998-4
OpenAlex ID: W2264138826
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DOI: 10.1007/S11229-015-0998-4
description: scientific article; zbMATH DE number 6694305