Aspects of Scientific Explanation: And Other Essays in the Philosophy of Science, Volume 2 |
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... consideration is evidenced also by the ob- servation that the class of objects about which a hypothesis is supposed to assert something is in no way clearly determined , and that it changes with the context , as was shown in 5.12 ( a ) ...
... consideration is evidenced also by the ob- servation that the class of objects about which a hypothesis is supposed to assert something is in no way clearly determined , and that it changes with the context , as was shown in 5.12 ( a ) ...
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... consideration . 7.2 Analogous remarks apply to the procedure of ascertaining the " meaning " of given historical events ; its scientific import consists in determining what other events are relevantly connected with the event in ...
... consideration . 7.2 Analogous remarks apply to the procedure of ascertaining the " meaning " of given historical events ; its scientific import consists in determining what other events are relevantly connected with the event in ...
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... consideration ; and that the vague and sweeping notion of survival then be construed in the relativized sense of survival in a healthy state as specified . Otherwise , there is definite danger that different investigators will use the ...
... consideration ; and that the vague and sweeping notion of survival then be construed in the relativized sense of survival in a healthy state as specified . Otherwise , there is definite danger that different investigators will use the ...
Contents
Studies in the Logic of Confirmation | 3 |
Postscript 1964 on Confirmation | 47 |
Inductive Inconsistencies | 53 |
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