8vo. [6], vii-xi, [1], 375, [1] pp. Blue cloth with gold lettering on the spine. Price of 40s. net on the front flap of the dust jacket. Based upon the Tarner Lectures 1946. Honderich 102: "Braithwaite describe[s] uninterpreted formal systems, and how a tough empiricist might give them meaning as scientific statements. Within this basic framework he discussed the standard problems of theoretical terms, models, probability, induction, laws, causation, and explanation" A Very Good book with a few annotations in blue ink and a name on the free front endpaper in a Very Good dust jacket with a small chip to the top of the spine panel and some fading to the spine and rear panel.

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Title

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

Publisher

At the University Press, Cambridge

Publication Date

1953

Binding

Hardcover

Edition

First printing.

Condition

Very Good

Dust Jacket Condition

Very Good

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