Foresight and Understanding: An Enquiry Into the Aims of Science |
Contents
Foreword | 9 |
Forecasting and Understanding | 18 |
Ideals of Natural Order I | 38 |
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acids aims of science American argument Aristotle Aristotle's astronomy atomic Babylonians body Bultmann chemistry Christianity conception Copernicus course CRANE BRINTON Culture distance dynamics E. H. CARR eclipses Edited eighteenth century enquiry ERICH NEUMANN Essays ÉTIENNE GILSON Evolution example explanation explanatory power fact force forecast Foreword fundamental Galileo gravitational Greek happen Helmont Henry historian History ideals of natural Illus IMMANUEL KANT inertia intellectual intelligible interpretation Intro Introduction inverse-square J. H. HEXTER J. H. Plumb JACQUES BARZUN JOHN Kant look magnetic MARTIN BUBER material change mathematical matter matter-theory merits metals Modern natural and self-explanatory natural motion natural order Newton once original paradigm particular Philosophy physics Political predictivist thesis principle problem purpose question RALPH BARTON PERRY recognize relation Religion Renaissance resistances Revised ROBERT RUDOLF BULTMANN scientific ideas scientific theory scientist Social SOREN KIERKEGAARD STEPHEN TOULMIN Study techniques theoretical things thought tion Trans