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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... understand the game in question only when we understand , in outline at any rate , this whole plural range of aims and purposes which a participant in it has to pursue . What is true of Sport is true of Science also . Each term covers a ...
... understand the game in question only when we understand , in outline at any rate , this whole plural range of aims and purposes which a participant in it has to pursue . What is true of Sport is true of Science also . Each term covers a ...
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... understand and explain any kind of motion . If you want to understand the motion of a body ( in his view ) you should think of it as you would think of a horse - and - cart : i.e. you should look for two factors - the external agency ...
... understand and explain any kind of motion . If you want to understand the motion of a body ( in his view ) you should think of it as you would think of a horse - and - cart : i.e. you should look for two factors - the external agency ...
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... Suppose that these new suggestions were now to receive striking new observational support . Our attitude towards Kant's proof might change suddenly . Instead of being condemned as ' a silly blunder ' , 88 FORESIGHT AND UNDERSTANDING.
... Suppose that these new suggestions were now to receive striking new observational support . Our attitude towards Kant's proof might change suddenly . Instead of being condemned as ' a silly blunder ' , 88 FORESIGHT AND UNDERSTANDING.
Contents
Foreword | 9 |
Forecasting and Understanding | 18 |
Ideals of Natural Order I | 38 |
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