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Against the Topologists: Essay Review of New Foundations for Physical Geometry - Tim Maudlin, New Foundations for Physical Geometry: The Theory of Linear Structures. Oxford: Oxford University Press (2014), 363 pp., $95.00 (cloth).

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Tim Maudlin, New Foundations for Physical Geometry: The Theory of Linear Structures. Oxford: Oxford University Press (2014), 363 pp., $95.00 (cloth).

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2022

Samuel C. Fletcher
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Philosophy of Science , Volume 84 , Issue 3 , July 2017 , pp. 595 - 603
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