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Creative understanding : philosophical reflections on physics / Roberto Torretti.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Torretti, Roberto, 1930-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Physics--Philosophy.
- Physics.
- Physics--Methodology.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (388 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1990.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- "A pleasure to read. Gracefully written by a scholar well grounded in the relevant philosophical, historical, and technical background. . . . a helpfully clarifying review and analysis of some issues of importance to recent philosophy of science and a source of some illuminating insights."-Burke Townsend, Philosophy of Science
- Contents:
- Front matter
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- 1. Observation
- 2. Concepts
- 3. Theories
- 4. Probability
- 5. Necessity
- Notes
- References
- Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [337]-356) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786613058638
- 9780226808352
- 0226808351
- 9781283058636
- 1283058634
- 9780226807829
- 0226807827
- OCLC:
- 699510897
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