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Simulation and Similarity: Using Models to Understand the World
New York, US: Oxford University Press (2013)
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one takes to be the most salient, any pair could be judged more similar to each other than to the third. Goodman uses this second problem to showthat there can be no context-free similarity metric, either in the trivial case or in a scientifically ...Author's Profile
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