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Correspondence, Invariance and Heuristics : Essays in Honour of Heinz Post /

This volume is dedicated to Heinz Post who proposed a rational model of scientific discovery. His account draws attention to the formal flaws in theories that motivate theory modification, the correspondence relations that hold between old and new theories and the cross-theoretic retention of symmet...

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Main Author:	French, Steven
Corporate Author:	SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors:	Kamminga, Harmke
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 1993.
Series:	Boston studies in the philosophy of science ; 148.
Subjects:	Philosophy (General) Genetic epistemology. Science > Philosophy. History. Humanities. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

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