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I'm selling my book in print ($15.50) in Lulu.com, but in this page I offer you the opportunity to download for no cost the book Underdetermination of Science - Part I: The Relation Between Formal Science and Natural Science in digital form and free of any DRM (Digital Restriction Management). It is under a Creative Commons License (Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported), so you are free to copy it in any format or redistribute it on the Internet as long as you give proper attribution to the author (yours truly!), you do not use it for commercial purposes, and that you don't make derived works out of it.

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If by any chance in the universe, you receive a copy of any of my books, or my MA Thesis, with a Digital Restriction Management (DRM), know that this was done without my consent. In such a case, do yourself a favor as a user: break it! Enjoying your fair use is a right you have. Again, sharing with your neighbor, changing from PDF to Rich-Text-Format or Plain-Text-Format, or to an audio format, copying it for educational purposes, or to help someone else is not a sin, and it is essentially good.