Aspects of Scientific Explanation: And Other Essays in the Philosophy of Science, Volume 2 |
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... physical theory is not the concept of ideal gas at all , but rather the concepts representing the various ... physical pendulum , but whose influence is fairly small in the case of those physical systems to which the formula is custom ...
... physical theory is not the concept of ideal gas at all , but rather the concepts representing the various ... physical pendulum , but whose influence is fairly small in the case of those physical systems to which the formula is custom ...
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... physical objects ; but our observational criterion for two points x , y determining a segment of irrational length required that there should be an infintie sequence of other points between x and y . This condition is never satisfied by ...
... physical objects ; but our observational criterion for two points x , y determining a segment of irrational length required that there should be an infintie sequence of other points between x and y . This condition is never satisfied by ...
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... physical theory actually exist , we assert that there occur in the universe particles of the various kinds indicated by physical theory , governed by specified physical laws , and showing certain specific kinds of observable symptoms of ...
... physical theory actually exist , we assert that there occur in the universe particles of the various kinds indicated by physical theory , governed by specified physical laws , and showing certain specific kinds of observable symptoms of ...
Contents
Studies in the Logic of Confirmation | 3 |
Postscript 1964 on Confirmation | 47 |
Inductive Inconsistencies | 53 |
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