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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... theoretical understanding of the processes involved ; so , from now on , we must concentrate our attention on conditional or hypothetical predictions . Scientific experi- ments , which count for so much in the establishment of theories ...
... theoretical understanding of the processes involved ; so , from now on , we must concentrate our attention on conditional or hypothetical predictions . Scientific experi- ments , which count for so much in the establishment of theories ...
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... theoretical purposes , to relate familiar everyday happenings to idealized , imaginary states - of - affairs that never in practice occur - ideals to which even the motions of the planets can only approximate . Yet the change paid ...
... theoretical purposes , to relate familiar everyday happenings to idealized , imaginary states - of - affairs that never in practice occur - ideals to which even the motions of the planets can only approximate . Yet the change paid ...
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... theoretical discoveries . He himself had a sufficient private income , and could afford to aim at intellectual light with- out concern for financial gain : concentrating , in his own words , on ' luciferous ' experiments rather than ...
... theoretical discoveries . He himself had a sufficient private income , and could afford to aim at intellectual light with- out concern for financial gain : concentrating , in his own words , on ' luciferous ' experiments rather than ...
Contents
Foreword | 9 |
Forecasting and Understanding | 18 |
Ideals of Natural Order I | 38 |
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