Like no other text in this field, "Theory and Reality" combines a survey of recent history of the philosophy of science with current key debates in language that any beginning scholar or critical reader can follow. von Godfrey-Smith, Peter

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A complete textbook for a course for English-language speakers who want to learn Czech. Based on a communicative and comparative approach, it presents the basics of the Czech language by means of continuous and systematic acquisition of...