A comparison of the meaning and uses of models in mathematics and the empirical sciences

Synthese 12 (2-3):287--301 (1960)
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Introduction to logic.Patrick Suppes - 1957 - Mineola, N.Y.: Dover Publications.
Social Choice and Individual Values.Irving M. Copi - 1952 - Science and Society 16 (2):181-181.
Undecidable theories.Alfred Tarski - 1968 - Amsterdam,: North-Holland Pub. Co.. Edited by Andrzej Mostowski & Raphael M. Robinson.
Foundations of physics.Robert Bruce Lindsay - 1957 - New York,: Dover Publications. Edited by Henry Margenau.
The Axiomatic Method in Biology. [REVIEW]Kurt Edward Rosinger - 1938 - Journal of Philosophy 35 (10):273-274.

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