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The primary purpose of this book is to examine the logical features common to all the sciences. Each science proceeds by inventing general principles from which are deduced the consequences to be tested by observation and experiment; the author shows how the implications of this process explain some of its more baffling features and resolves many of the difficulties that philosophers have found in them. His exposition is by way of detailed examples.
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Each science proceeds by inventing general principles from which are deduced the consequences to be tested by observation and experiment; the author shows how the implications of this process explain some of its more baffling features and resolves many of the difficulties that philosophers have found in them.
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- PublisherCambridge University Press
- Publication date1953
- ISBN 10 0521043069
- ISBN 13 9780521043069
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages388
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Scientific Explanation: A Study of the Function of Theory, Probability and Law in Science. Based upon the Tarner Lectures, 1946
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