Scientific Explanation: A Study of the Function of Theory, Probability and Law in Science. Based upon the Tarner Lectures, 1946

BRAITHWAITE, Richard Bevan

ISBN 10: 0521043069 / ISBN 13: 9780521043069

Verlag: Cambridge University Press, 1959

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pp.xii, 376 pages, a very good hardback, publisher's original blue cloth binding with gilt lettering and the Cambridge logo to the spine, not that easy to tell that this is nfrom a uk university library [0521043069]. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 60155

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Titel: Scientific Explanation: A Study of the ...

Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Erscheinungsdatum: 1959

Einband: Hardcover

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Each science proceeds by inventing general principles from which are deduced the consequences to be tested by observation and experiment; the author shows how the implications of this process explain some of its more baffling features and resolves many of the difficulties that philosophers have found in them.

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The primary purpose of this book is to examine the logical features common to all the sciences. Each science proceeds by inventing general principles from which are deduced the consequences to be tested by observation and experiment; the author shows how the implications of this process explain some of its more baffling features and resolves many of the difficulties that philosophers have found in them. His exposition is by way of detailed examples.