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Contemporary Newtonian Research
Zev . Ed(S): Bechler
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Paperback. Editor(s): Bechler, Zev. Series: Studies in the History of Modern Science. Num Pages: 243 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HP; JPA; PDA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 13. Weight in Grams: 397.
them in his cheat-preface to Copernicus De Revolutionibus, but the main change in their import has been that whereas Osiander defended Copernicus, Mach and Duhem defended science. The modem conception of hypothetico deductive science is, again, geared to defend the respectability of science in much the same way: the physical interpretation, it says, is merely and always hypothetical, and so the scientist is never really committed to it. Hence, when science sheds the physical interpretation off its mathematical skeleton as time and refutation catch up with it, the scientist is not really caught in error, for he never was committed ... Read more
them in his cheat-preface to Copernicus De Revolutionibus, but the main change in their import has been that whereas Osiander defended Copernicus, Mach and Duhem defended science. The modem conception of hypothetico deductive science is, again, geared to defend the respectability of science in much the same way: the physical interpretation, it says, is merely and always hypothetical, and so the scientist is never really committed to it. Hence, when science sheds the physical interpretation off its mathematical skeleton as time and refutation catch up with it, the scientist is not really caught in error, for he never was committed ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Springer Netherlands
Number of pages
243
Condition
New
Series
Studies in the History of Modern Science
Number of Pages
243
Place of Publication
Dordrecht, Netherlands
ISBN
9789400977174
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V9789400977174
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