Scientific explanation: A study of the function of theory, probability and law in science
Braithwaite, Ricard bevan
Scientific explanation: A study of the function of theory, probability and law in science - New York Harper & Brothers 1960 - x, 374 p. Includes bibliographical reference and index
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.
Reference
Science methodology
sciences philosophy
Scientific explanation
Scientific explanation: A study of the function of theory, probability and law in science - New York Harper & Brothers 1960 - x, 374 p. Includes bibliographical reference and index
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.
Reference
Science methodology
sciences philosophy
Scientific explanation