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... problems to which this procedure has been successfully applied . If you can apply strong inference to any problem at all , you will have converted that problem into something within the province of science . - This does not imply that ...
... problems to which this procedure has been successfully applied . If you can apply strong inference to any problem at all , you will have converted that problem into something within the province of science . - This does not imply that ...
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... problem in its entirety , just as it arises at the Commander's staff meet- ing , and to apply scientific analysis to ... problem under investigation is a new one and in a fresh and comparatively little - understood field . In a problem ...
... problem in its entirety , just as it arises at the Commander's staff meet- ing , and to apply scientific analysis to ... problem under investigation is a new one and in a fresh and comparatively little - understood field . In a problem ...
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... problem , the urbanization problem , the traffic problem , the energy problem and so on . It is really hopeless to expect to deal successfully with any one of these complex problems on its own . Even if we had already attained much ...
... problem , the urbanization problem , the traffic problem , the energy problem and so on . It is really hopeless to expect to deal successfully with any one of these complex problems on its own . Even if we had already attained much ...
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