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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... theoretical terms — statements which may yield new interpretative connections between theoretical and observational terms ; and yet he will regard these as additional assumptions about the same hypothetical entities to which the theoretical ...
... theoretical terms — statements which may yield new interpretative connections between theoretical and observational terms ; and yet he will regard these as additional assumptions about the same hypothetical entities to which the theoretical ...
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... theoretical terms can be said actually to exist- a question to which we will return shortly . Semantics , then ... theoretical expressions . Generally speaking , we might qualify a theoretical expression as intelligible or significant if ...
... theoretical terms can be said actually to exist- a question to which we will return shortly . Semantics , then ... theoretical expressions . Generally speaking , we might qualify a theoretical expression as intelligible or significant if ...
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... theoretical terms may be inferred from V - sentences . Thus , there are close resemblances between our theoretical sentences and those sentences which are intelligible in the narrower sense of being expressible entirely in terms of V ...
... theoretical terms may be inferred from V - sentences . Thus , there are close resemblances between our theoretical sentences and those sentences which are intelligible in the narrower sense of being expressible entirely in terms of V ...
Contents
Studies in the Logic of Confirmation | 3 |
Postscript 1964 on Confirmation | 47 |
Inductive Inconsistencies | 53 |
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