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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... Objects of Inquiry : Entropy - Increase The patterns of evolution of the objects of scientific inquiry are very similar to those of facts , since these are the things about which factual assertions are made . That they do evolve , there ...
... Objects of Inquiry : Entropy - Increase The patterns of evolution of the objects of scientific inquiry are very similar to those of facts , since these are the things about which factual assertions are made . That they do evolve , there ...
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... objects of inquiry are brought down through successive transformations in descendant- lattices of problems , and by extension , the collection of accepted factual assertions about them becomes ever larger and more hetero- geneous . It ...
... objects of inquiry are brought down through successive transformations in descendant- lattices of problems , and by extension , the collection of accepted factual assertions about them becomes ever larger and more hetero- geneous . It ...
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... objects of inquiry ; for the objects exist only as the collection of their known properties . These may be explicit assertions about details , or they may be techniques involved in establishing conclusions about objects , or again they ...
... objects of inquiry ; for the objects exist only as the collection of their known properties . These may be explicit assertions about details , or they may be techniques involved in establishing conclusions about objects , or again they ...
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Introduction | 1 |
Social Problems of Industrialized Science | 31 |
Science as Craftsmans Work | 75 |
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