Chemists, like other specialists, ought to make it clearer what hypotheses they are framing and testing. They will thus avoid the suggestion that they are over-fond of empirical generalizations.
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Magnusson, E. Character analysis of a science. Nature 352, 103 (1991). https://doi.org/10.1038/352103a0
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