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The primary purpose of this book is to examine the logical features common to all the sciences.
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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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Preface; 1. Introduction; 2. Scientific deductive systems and their representations; 3. The status of the theoretical terms of a science; 4. Models for scientific theories: their use and misuse; 5. Statistical hypotheses, probability statements and class-ratio arithmetic; 6. The meaning of probability statements within a scientific system; 7. The choice between statistical hypotheses; 8. The justification of induction; 9. Laws of nature and causality; 10. Causal and teleological explanation; 11. Explanation of scientific laws; Index.
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Scientific Explanation: A Study of the Function of Theory, Probability and Law in Science
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Cambridge University Press, 1953
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ISBN 13: 9780521043069
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Scientific Explanation: A Study of the Function of Theory, Probability and Law in Science
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Cambridge University Press, 1953
ISBN 10: 0521043069
ISBN 13: 9780521043069
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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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