Scientific Explanation: A Study of the Function of Theory, Probability and Law in Science

Braithwaite, R.B.

ISBN 10: 0521094429 / ISBN 13: 9780521094429

Published by Cambridge University Press, 1968

About this Item

xii 376 pages; a few pages with neat underlining and margin marks; light shelf wear to edges of cover.

Seller Inventory # 208536

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Scientific Explanation: A Study of the Function of Theory, Probability and Law in Science
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication Date: 1968
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0521094429
• ISBN 13: 9780521094429
• Binding: Soft Cover
• Condition: good+
• Book Type: Paperback
• Seller catalogs:
  • Science/Eng.,Philosophy / Ethics / Logic

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Synopsis

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.

Book Description

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.