Scientific Knowledge and Its Social ProblemsOxford University Press, 1973 - 449 páginas Analyses the work of science as the creation and investigation of problems, and demonstrates the role of choice and value-judgement, and the inevitability of error, in scientific research. |
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... evidence brought into the argument which as a whole establishes these properties . The information which is selected from the available stock for use as evidence must be subjected to further testing , not- withstanding the fact that it ...
... evidence brought into the argument which as a whole establishes these properties . The information which is selected from the available stock for use as evidence must be subjected to further testing , not- withstanding the fact that it ...
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... evidence . For example , the con- temporary fashion for using mathematical materials at every possible point of an argument induces a tendency to accept statistical in- formation as facts , rather than as evidence , in a wide variety of ...
... evidence . For example , the con- temporary fashion for using mathematical materials at every possible point of an argument induces a tendency to accept statistical in- formation as facts , rather than as evidence , in a wide variety of ...
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... evidence for its function in the main argument . 14 The pitfalls to be encountered in connection with evidence are most noticeable when existing information is taken over for use in a problem . Whether this material is immediately ...
... evidence for its function in the main argument . 14 The pitfalls to be encountered in connection with evidence are most noticeable when existing information is taken over for use in a problem . Whether this material is immediately ...
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Introduction | 1 |
Social Problems of Industrialized Science | 31 |
Science as Craftsmans Work | 75 |
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