On the prospects for a nomothetic theory of social structure

Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour 13 (3):243–264 (1983)
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Studies in the logic of explanation.Carl Gustav Hempel & Paul Oppenheim - 1948 - Philosophy of Science 15 (2):135-175.
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