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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... COGNITIVE SIGNIFICANCE : PROBLEMS AND CHANGES 1. THE GENERAL EMPIRICIST CONCEPTION OF COGNITIVE AND EMPIRICAL SIGNIFICANCE It is a basic principle of contemporary empiricism that a sentence makes a cognitively significant assertion ...
... COGNITIVE SIGNIFICANCE : PROBLEMS AND CHANGES 1. THE GENERAL EMPIRICIST CONCEPTION OF COGNITIVE AND EMPIRICAL SIGNIFICANCE It is a basic principle of contemporary empiricism that a sentence makes a cognitively significant assertion ...
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... significance , and ( b ) between those sentences which do have cognitive significance and those which do not . In the present paper , I propose to reconsider these distinctions as conceived in recent empiricism , and to point out some ...
... significance , and ( b ) between those sentences which do have cognitive significance and those which do not . In the present paper , I propose to reconsider these distinctions as conceived in recent empiricism , and to point out some ...
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... COGNITIVE SIGNIFICANCE AS A CHARACTERISTIC OF INTER- PRETED SYSTEMS The preceding considerations point to the conclusion that a satisfactory criterion of cognitive significance cannot be reached through the second avenue of approach ...
... COGNITIVE SIGNIFICANCE AS A CHARACTERISTIC OF INTER- PRETED SYSTEMS The preceding considerations point to the conclusion that a satisfactory criterion of cognitive significance cannot be reached through the second avenue of approach ...
Contents
Studies in the Logic of Confirmation | 3 |
Postscript 1964 on Confirmation | 47 |
Inductive Inconsistencies | 53 |
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