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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... vocabulary that may be used in forming significant sentences . This vocabulary , the class of significant terms , would be characterized by the condition that each of its elements is either a logical term or else a term with empirical ...
... vocabulary that may be used in forming significant sentences . This vocabulary , the class of significant terms , would be characterized by the condition that each of its elements is either a logical term or else a term with empirical ...
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... vocabulary of science is essential to the idea of operational definition ; for it is in terms of this vocabulary that the test conditions and the characteristic response specified in an operational defini- tion are described and by ...
... vocabulary of science is essential to the idea of operational definition ; for it is in terms of this vocabulary that the test conditions and the characteristic response specified in an operational defini- tion are described and by ...
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... vocabulary is finite . It may contain individual names designating certain observable objects ; first - order ... vocabulary , the theoretical vocabulary of physics , for example , contains a large number of functors whose permissible ...
... vocabulary is finite . It may contain individual names designating certain observable objects ; first - order ... vocabulary , the theoretical vocabulary of physics , for example , contains a large number of functors whose permissible ...
Contents
Studies in the Logic of Confirmation | 3 |
Postscript 1964 on Confirmation | 47 |
Inductive Inconsistencies | 53 |
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