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The scientific image / Bas C. Van Fraassen.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Van Fraassen, Bas C., 1941- author.
- Series:
- Clarendon library of logic and philosophy.
- Clarendon library of logic and philosophy
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Science--Philosophy.
- Science.
- Empiricism.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (viii, 235 pages) : illustrations.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Clarendon, 1980.
- Summary:
- Presenting an empiricist alternative to both logical positivism and scientific realism, this book insists on a literal understanding of the language of science and on an irreducibly pragmatic dimension of theory acceptance.
- Contents:
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Arguments concerning scientific realism
- 3. To save the phenomena
- 4. Empiricism and scientific methodology
- 5. The pragmatics of explanation
- 6. Probability: the new modality of science
- 7. Gentle polemics.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Other Format:
- Print version
- ISBN:
- 9780191597473
- OCLC:
- 1035669140
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