Real quantitativeness: what formal investigations can(not) show [Book Review]

Metascience 31 (1):125-128 (2022)
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Review: J. E. Wolff. The metaphysics of quantity. New York: Oxford University Press, 2020. 240 pp, $72.00 HB

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