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Page 17
... problem of ' scientific merit ' will turn out to be a similar one : it is the problem of seeing in how many ways a novel scientific idea may , in the conditions of its introduction , be ' better adapted ' than its predecessors or rivals ...
... problem of ' scientific merit ' will turn out to be a similar one : it is the problem of seeing in how many ways a novel scientific idea may , in the conditions of its introduction , be ' better adapted ' than its predecessors or rivals ...
Page 57
... problems fruitfully . They will not even have the same problem : events which are ' phenomena ' in one man's eyes will be passed over by the other as ' perfectly natural ' . These ideals have something ' absolute ' about them , like the ...
... problems fruitfully . They will not even have the same problem : events which are ' phenomena ' in one man's eyes will be passed over by the other as ' perfectly natural ' . These ideals have something ' absolute ' about them , like the ...
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... problem is very different : in an in- tellectual situation which presents a variety of demands , his task is typically - to accommodate some new discovery to his inherited ideas , without needlessly jeopardizing the intellectual gains ...
... problem is very different : in an in- tellectual situation which presents a variety of demands , his task is typically - to accommodate some new discovery to his inherited ideas , without needlessly jeopardizing the intellectual gains ...
Contents
Foreword | 9 |
Forecasting and Understanding | 18 |
Ideals of Natural Order I | 38 |
Copyright | |
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