Aspects of Scientific Explanation: And Other Essays in the Philosophy of Science, Volume 2 |
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... phenomenon cannot be significantly raised unless the theories available for the prediction have been specified has encouraged the misconception that certain phenomena have a mysterious quality of absolute unexplainability , and that ...
... phenomenon cannot be significantly raised unless the theories available for the prediction have been specified has encouraged the misconception that certain phenomena have a mysterious quality of absolute unexplainability , and that ...
Page 434
... phenomena that we are considering , whatever they may be . At the time when we are considering the phenomenon of elasticity in solids , I want to show a model of that . At another time , when we have vibrations of light to consider , I ...
... phenomena that we are considering , whatever they may be . At the time when we are considering the phenomenon of elasticity in solids , I want to show a model of that . At another time , when we have vibrations of light to consider , I ...
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... phenomena , without any refer- ence to their structural isomorphism with the set L1 . For the systematic purposes of scientific explanation , reliance on analogies is thus inessential and can always be dispensed with . This observation ...
... phenomena , without any refer- ence to their structural isomorphism with the set L1 . For the systematic purposes of scientific explanation , reliance on analogies is thus inessential and can always be dispensed with . This observation ...
Contents
Studies in the Logic of Confirmation | 3 |
Postscript 1964 on Confirmation | 47 |
Inductive Inconsistencies | 53 |
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