Foresight and Understanding: An Enquiry Into the Aims of ScienceOriginated in the thirty-fourth series of Mahlon Powell lectures, delivered at Indiana University in March 1960. |
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... Revised Thesis . Origin- ally , we were free to distinguish pre - diction from retro- diction - saying beforehand that something is going to happen from inferring after the event that it has happened . If the light which Darwin threw on ...
... Revised Thesis . Origin- ally , we were free to distinguish pre - diction from retro- diction - saying beforehand that something is going to happen from inferring after the event that it has happened . If the light which Darwin threw on ...
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... Revised Thesis , which is at last elastic enough to fit all scientific theories . How can this be done ? In the whole argument up to this point , we have supposed that a ' prediction ' must always be a categorical , dated assertion ...
... Revised Thesis , which is at last elastic enough to fit all scientific theories . How can this be done ? In the whole argument up to this point , we have supposed that a ' prediction ' must always be a categorical , dated assertion ...
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... Revised Edition TB / 1253 MORTON DAUWEN ZABEL , Editor : Literary Opinion in America Vol . I TB / 3013 ; Vol . II TB / 3014 TB / 1023 TB / 1051 W. J. BATE : From Classic to Romantic : Premises of Taste in Eighteenth Century England Myth ...
... Revised Edition TB / 1253 MORTON DAUWEN ZABEL , Editor : Literary Opinion in America Vol . I TB / 3013 ; Vol . II TB / 3014 TB / 1023 TB / 1051 W. J. BATE : From Classic to Romantic : Premises of Taste in Eighteenth Century England Myth ...
Contents
Foreword | 9 |
Forecasting and Understanding | 18 |
Ideals of Natural Order I | 38 |
Copyright | |
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