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The epistemology of normality1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 July 2009

Edmond A. Murphy
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‘It does not seem a profitable procedure to make odd noises on the offchance that posterity will find a significance to attribute to them’ (Eddington, 1928)
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1979

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