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Summary of the Debate about Prof. A. G. M. van Melsen’s Pre-Advice about “The Responsibility of the Scientist”

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Prof. Wiersma brings forward as his first point that the concept freedom is insufficiently defined in the pre-advice. It means in the connection under consideration the absence of compulsion from without.

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© 1955 Martinus Nijhoff, The Hague, Netherlands

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Wiersma, D. (1955). Summary of the Debate about Prof. A. G. M. van Melsen’s Pre-Advice about “The Responsibility of the Scientist”. In: Freedom and Restriction in Science and its Aspects in Society. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-9099-2_25

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