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  title info:
    title: Scientific representation
    sub title: paradoxes of perspective
  name:
    name part: Van Fraassen, Bas C.
    name part: 1941-
    role:
      role term: creator
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    place:
      place term: Oxford
    place:
      place term: New York
    publisher: Clarendon Press
    publisher: Oxford University Press
    date issued: 2008
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (xiv, 408 pages) : illustrations
  abstract: The author presents an original exploration of how we represent the world. He investigates the nature of representation in both science and art, defends a distinctive position in contemporary philosophy of science, and illuminates the complex relationship between appearance and reality.
  table of contents: Representation of, representation as -- Imaging, picturing, and scaling -- Pictorial perspective and the indexical -- A window on the invisible world -- The problem of coordination -- Measurement as representation: 1. The physical correlate -- Measurement as representation: 2. Information -- From the bildtheorie of science to paradox -- The longest journey: Bertrand Russell -- Carnap's lost world and Putnam's paradox -- An empiricist structuralism -- Appearance vs. reality in the sciences -- Rejecting the appearance from reality criterion.
  note: Bas C. van Fraassen.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 320-397) and index.
  subject:
    topic: Science
    topic: Philosophy
  subject:
    topic: Philosophy
  subject:
    topic: Science
  subject:
    topic: Philosophy
  subject:
    topic: Science
  subject:
    topic: Philosophie
  subject:
    topic: Sciences
  subject:
    topic: philosophy
  subject:
    topic: sciences (philosophy)
  subject:
    topic: science (modern discipline)
  subject:
    topic: SCIENCE
    topic: Philosophy & Social Aspects
  subject:
    topic: Science
  subject:
    topic: Philosophy
  subject:
    topic: Science
    topic: Philosophy
  classification: Q175 .V3353 2008eb
  classification: 501
  classification: 2008 M-401
  classification: Q 175 V217 2008
  classification: CC 3200
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    origin info:
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    record creation date: 090317
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