Aspects of Scientific Explanation: And Other Essays in the Philosophy of Science, Volume 2 |
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... reduction sentence R specifies the meaning of ' F ' only for application to those objects which meet the " test ... sentences have the character of partial or conditional definitions . Reduction sentences provide a satisfactory ...
... reduction sentence R specifies the meaning of ' F ' only for application to those objects which meet the " test ... sentences have the character of partial or conditional definitions . Reduction sentences provide a satisfactory ...
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... sentences effecting such partial interpretation to reduction sentences in Carnap's sense . A partial specification of the meanings of a set of nonobservational terms might be expressed , more generally , by one or more sentences that ...
... sentences effecting such partial interpretation to reduction sentences in Carnap's sense . A partial specification of the meanings of a set of nonobservational terms might be expressed , more generally , by one or more sentences that ...
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... sentences in the form of defin- itions or reduction sentences for only some of the nonobservational terms it introduces . And finally , none of the sentences in M might have the form of a definition or of a reduction sentence ; and yet ...
... sentences in the form of defin- itions or reduction sentences for only some of the nonobservational terms it introduces . And finally , none of the sentences in M might have the form of a definition or of a reduction sentence ; and yet ...
Contents
Studies in the Logic of Confirmation | 3 |
Postscript 1964 on Confirmation | 47 |
Inductive Inconsistencies | 53 |
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