Explanatory Nature of Anthropic Reasoning in Cosmology
Wyjaśniający charakter wnioskowań antropicznych w kosmologii

DOI: https://doi.org/10.31648/hip.315

About author

Paweł Tambor
http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9293-8009 
The John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin     

Key words

theories of scientific explanation, anthropic reasoning, cosmology

Abstract

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