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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... theory as we know it today would be reduced to a clumsy , unmanageable torso . This , then , is no way of meeting ... theory of this kind may be divided , in familiar manner , into primitive or basic terms , which are not defined within ...
... theory as we know it today would be reduced to a clumsy , unmanageable torso . This , then , is no way of meeting ... theory of this kind may be divided , in familiar manner , into primitive or basic terms , which are not defined within ...
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... theory ; and indeed , even the requirement of full definition . of all theoretical terms by means of V still leaves room for similarly unrewarding " theories . " Examples like our mock " learning theory " simply remind us that , in ...
... theory ; and indeed , even the requirement of full definition . of all theoretical terms by means of V still leaves room for similarly unrewarding " theories . " Examples like our mock " learning theory " simply remind us that , in ...
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... theory actually exist , we assert that there occur in the universe particles of the various kinds indicated by physical theory , governed by specified physical laws , and showing certain specific kinds of observable symptoms of their ...
... theory actually exist , we assert that there occur in the universe particles of the various kinds indicated by physical theory , governed by specified physical laws , and showing certain specific kinds of observable symptoms of their ...
Contents
Studies in the Logic of Confirmation | 3 |
Postscript 1964 on Confirmation | 47 |
Inductive Inconsistencies | 53 |
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