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 {{review|The Dappled World – A Study of the Boundaries of Science|Nancy Cartwright|0521644119|21 June 2008|Erudite and, in places, fascinating but very, very heavy going}}
-{{author|Nancy Cartwright}} certainly has fashioned a unique place for herself in the [[philosophy of science]], as a mathematically and economically literate writer prepared to write books with titles like "how the laws of physics lie" - not exactly from the {{author|Carl Sagan}} playbook, after all. However, despite certain allegations to the contrary, this is not woolly headed postmodernism but technical, analytical philosophy and as such suffers less, not more, than usual from allegations of academic irrelevance: Cartwright knows her maths and her economics, and she can talk turkey.
+{{author|Nancy Cartwright}} certainly has fashioned a unique place for herself in the {{t|philosophy of science}}, as a mathematically and economically literate writer prepared to write books with titles like "how the laws of physics lie" - not exactly from the {{author|Carl Sagan}} playbook, after all. However, despite certain allegations to the contrary, this is not woolly headed postmodernism but technical, analytical philosophy and as such suffers less, not more, than usual from allegations of academic irrelevance: Cartwright knows her maths and her economics, and she can talk turkey.
 Boy can she talk turkey.