Scientific progress : a study concerning the nature of the relation between successive scientific theories /
Featuring the Gestalt Model and the Perspectivist conception of science, this book is unique in its non-relativistic development of the idea that successive scientific theories are logically incommensurable. This edition includes four new appendices in which the central ideas of the book are applied...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Dordrecht :
Springer,
1986.
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| Edition: | 2nd ed. |
| Series: | Synthese library ;
153. |
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | Featuring the Gestalt Model and the Perspectivist conception of science, this book is unique in its non-relativistic development of the idea that successive scientific theories are logically incommensurable. This edition includes four new appendices in which the central ideas of the book are applied to subatomic physics, the distinction between laws and theories, the relation between absolute and relative conceptions of space, and the environmental issue of sustainable development. |
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| Item Description: | "First published in 1981 as volume 153 of Reidel's Synthese library"--Title page verso. "PAL 36"--Cover. Electronic resource. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (188 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages [167]-173) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9789401729666 (electronic bk.) 9401729662 (electronic bk.) |