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Foresight and understanding:

an enquiry into the aims of science
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Greenwood 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 ... Read full review

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Contents

Foreword
9
Forecasting and Understanding
18
Ideals of Natural Order I
38
Copyright

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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
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 Toulmin
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TitleForesight and understanding: an enquiry into the aims of science
AuthorStephen Edelston Toulmin
Editionreprint
PublisherGreenwood Press, 1961
Original fromNorthwestern University
Digitized25 Apr 2011
Length115 pages
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