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Explaining science's success : understanding how scientific knowledge works /
Paul Feyeraband famously asked, what''s so great about science? One answer is that it has been surprisingly successful in getting things right about the natural world, more successful than non-scientific or pre-scientific systems, religion or philosophy. Science has been able to formulate...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London :
Routledge,
2014.
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| Colección: | Acumen research editions.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Paul Feyeraband famously asked, what''s so great about science? One answer is that it has been surprisingly successful in getting things right about the natural world, more successful than non-scientific or pre-scientific systems, religion or philosophy. Science has been able to formulate theories that have successfully predicted novel observations. It has produced theories about parts of reality that were not observable or accessible at the time those theories were first advanced, but the claims about those inaccessible areas have since turned out to be true. And science has, on occasion, ad. |
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| Notas: | Previously issued in print: Durham: Acumen, 2013. |
| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (1 volume) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781317544883 1317544889 9781315729091 1315729091 9781317544890 1317544897 9781317544876 1317544870 |