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  title info:
    title: Science and partial truth
    sub title: a unitary approach to models and scientific reasoning
  name:
    name part: Costa, Newton C. A. da.
    role:
      role term: creator
  name:
    name part: French, Steven.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    place:
      place term: New York
    publisher: Oxford University Press
    date issued: 2003
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (259 pages)
  abstract: Explores the consequences of adopting a 'pragmatic' notion of truth in the philosophy of science. This framework describes issues to do with belief, theory acceptance, and the realism-antirealism debate, as well as the nature of scientific models and their heuristic development.
  table of contents: Introduction: Aims and Overview -- 1. Truth, the Whole Truth, and Partial Truth -- 2. Theories and Models -- 3. Models and Models -- 4. Acceptance, Belief, and Commitment -- 5. Inconsistency in Science -- 6. Partiality, Pursuit, and Practice -- 7. Quasi Truth and the Nature of Induction -- 8. From Pragmatic Realism to Structural Empiricism -- 9. Extensions.
  note: Newton C.A. da Costa and Steven French.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-252) and index.
  note: English.
  subject:
    topic: Reasoning
  subject:
    topic: Science
    topic: Philosophy
  subject:
    topic: Judgment (Logic)
  subject:
    topic: Jugement (Logique)
  subject:
    topic: Sciences
    topic: Philosophie
  subject:
    topic: SCIENCE
    topic: Philosophy & Social Aspects
  subject:
    topic: Reasoning
  subject:
    topic: Science
    topic: Philosophy
  subject:
    topic: Erkenntnistheorie
  subject:
    topic: Wissenschaftstheorie
  subject:
    topic: Wetenschapsfilosofie
  subject:
    topic: Realisme (filosofie)
  classification: Q175.32.R45 C67 2003eb
  classification: 501
  classification: 30.02
  classification: CC 3200
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    record change date: 20260318172023.9
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