Scientific explanation: A study of the function of theory, probability and law in science

By: Material type: TextLanguage: English Publication details: New York Harper & Brothers 1960Description: x, 374 p. Includes bibliographical reference and indexSubject(s): Other classification:
  • A K0/SC
Summary: 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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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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