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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... involved in the taking of the sample studied as a true representative of its class ; probabili- stic inferences are involved in any assessment of the ' goodness of fit ' of data ; deductive inferences are the basic links in a verbal or ...
... involved in the taking of the sample studied as a true representative of its class ; probabili- stic inferences are involved in any assessment of the ' goodness of fit ' of data ; deductive inferences are the basic links in a verbal or ...
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... involved in the normal maintenance of quality control . For someone who loses property through the rejection of his research report by the journals is generally at fault for having misinterpreted the ruling criteria of adequacy and ...
... involved in the normal maintenance of quality control . For someone who loses property through the rejection of his research report by the journals is generally at fault for having misinterpreted the ruling criteria of adequacy and ...
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... involved with society at large when it is applied to the solution of technical problems , involving the pro- duction of the means for the performance of a function , or practical problems , involving the achievement of the purposes of ...
... involved with society at large when it is applied to the solution of technical problems , involving the pro- duction of the means for the performance of a function , or practical problems , involving the achievement of the purposes of ...
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Introduction | 1 |
Social Problems of Industrialized Science | 31 |
Science as Craftsmans Work | 75 |
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