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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... relevance of any piece of proffered in- formation . The distinction between reliability and relevance in descriptive fields can be seen from the example of the testing of individuals for psychological and educational purposes . One set ...
... relevance of any piece of proffered in- formation . The distinction between reliability and relevance in descriptive fields can be seen from the example of the testing of individuals for psychological and educational purposes . One set ...
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... relevant to a problem is a craft skill whose most elementary part is ' information retrieval ' techniques . On this task , the scientist has no substitute for his judgement and experience , since the estab- lishment of those ...
... relevant to a problem is a craft skill whose most elementary part is ' information retrieval ' techniques . On this task , the scientist has no substitute for his judgement and experience , since the estab- lishment of those ...
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... relevant public influence the reality they collectively experience ; and so the reassurance offered by the folk - science may have a chance of being a ' self- fulfilling prophecy ' . In cases where this applies , the function of the ...
... relevant public influence the reality they collectively experience ; and so the reassurance offered by the folk - science may have a chance of being a ' self- fulfilling prophecy ' . In cases where this applies , the function of the ...
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Introduction | 1 |
Social Problems of Industrialized Science | 31 |
Science as Craftsmans Work | 75 |
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