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Foresight and understanding:

an enquiry into the aims of science
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Indiana University Press, 1961 - Science - 115 pages

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Another in a continuing series: books I was assigned to read in college but *cough* couldn't find the time to. This is a very brief epistemological investigation (by a philosopher) of how science is ...

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Contents

Foreword
9
Forecasting and Understanding
18
Ideals of Natural Order I
38
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FORESIGHT AND UNDERSTANDING
STEPHEN TOULMIN
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Foresight and understanding: an enquiry into the aims of science
Foresight and understanding: an enquiry into the aims of science
Stephen Edelston Toulmin
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Foresight and understanding: an enquiry into the aims of science
Foresight and understanding: an enquiry into the aims of science
Stephen Toulmin
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TitleForesight and understanding: an enquiry into the aims of science
Nuffield Foundation Unit for the History of Ideas
Harper Torchbooks
Powell lectures on philosophy, Indiana University
AuthorStephen Edelston Toulmin
PublisherIndiana University Press, 1961
Original fromthe University of California
Digitized12 Aug 2008
Length115 pages
SubjectsScience
  
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