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  title info:
    title: Toward a philosophy of error in science
  name:
    name part: Allchin, Douglas
    name part: 1956-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2026
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource : illustrations.
  abstract: History is littered with scientific errors. This contrasts sharply with the image of science as providing a systematic method that reliably yields trustworthy knowledge. 'Toward a Philosophy of Error in Science' resolves this puzzle.
  table of contents: Cover -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Preface -- Chapter Summaries -- 1 Error Itself -- 2 Observational Errors -- 3 Conceptual Errors -- 4 Social-Level Errors -- 5 From Incongruence to Error -- 6 Deeper Evidence -- 7 The Conundrum of Bias -- 8 Managing Error -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- References -- Index.
  note: Douglas Allchin.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    topic: Errors, Scientific
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Science
    topic: Methodology
  subject:
    topic: Science
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Erreurs scientifiques
    topic: Histoire
  subject:
    topic: Sciences
    topic: Méthodologie
  subject:
    topic: Sciences
    topic: Histoire
  subject:
    topic: Errors, Scientific
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Science
    topic: Methodology
  subject:
    topic: Science
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Science: general issues
  subject:
    topic: Popular Science and Nature
  classification: Q172.5.E77 A45 2026
  classification: 501
  identifier: 9780197827703
  identifier: 0197827705
  identifier: 9780197827697
  identifier: 0197827691
  identifier: 9780197827680
  identifier: 0197827683
  identifier: 9780197827673
  identifier: http://proxy.library.tamu.edu/login
  record info:
    record content source: STBDS
    record creation date: 251020
    record change date: 20260319210719.6
    record identifier: in00005728856
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng