Aspects of Scientific Explanation: And Other Essays in the Philosophy of Science, Volume 1Confirmation, Induction, and Rational Belief -- Conceptions of Cognitive Significance -- Structure and Function of Scientific Concepts and Theories -- Scientific Explanation. |
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... nomic or nomological . We use the notion of a potential explanation , for example , when we ask whether a novel and as yet untested law or theory would provide an explanation for some empirical phenomenon ; or when we say that the ...
... nomic or nomological . We use the notion of a potential explanation , for example , when we ask whether a novel and as yet untested law or theory would provide an explanation for some empirical phenomenon ; or when we say that the ...
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... nomic principles are required to connect the explanandum event with other particulars , and it is by such nomic con- nection that the latter acquire the status of explanatory factors . In the explana- tion of general empirical ...
... nomic principles are required to connect the explanandum event with other particulars , and it is by such nomic con- nection that the latter acquire the status of explanatory factors . In the explana- tion of general empirical ...
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... nomic isomorphisms . He mentions , for example , Ohm's transfer of the laws of heat conduction to electric conduction , and he stresses the importance of those cases in which extensive theories for two distinct and dissimilar categories ...
... nomic isomorphisms . He mentions , for example , Ohm's transfer of the laws of heat conduction to electric conduction , and he stresses the importance of those cases in which extensive theories for two distinct and dissimilar categories ...
Contents
Studies in the Logic of Confirmation | 3 |
Postscript 1964 on Confirmation | 47 |
Inductive Inconsistencies | 53 |
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