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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... situation ' . By its very nature , this is difficult to define . It may be considered as an awareness that there is a question to be asked , without anyone being able to frame the question successfully . Alternatively , it can be ...
... situation ' . By its very nature , this is difficult to define . It may be considered as an awareness that there is a question to be asked , without anyone being able to frame the question successfully . Alternatively , it can be ...
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... situation to the Aristotelian scheme of the task of investigating a problem , we notice that the task itself , defined by its goal of the establishment of certain new properties of the objects of inquiry , depends for its existence on a ...
... situation to the Aristotelian scheme of the task of investigating a problem , we notice that the task itself , defined by its goal of the establishment of certain new properties of the objects of inquiry , depends for its existence on a ...
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... situation ; this is done either by explaining it away altogether , or , if this is impossible , to give assurance of the possibility of its comfortable resolution . If these tasks cannot be accomplished , then the ideology of that ...
... situation ; this is done either by explaining it away altogether , or , if this is impossible , to give assurance of the possibility of its comfortable resolution . If these tasks cannot be accomplished , then the ideology of that ...
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Introduction | 1 |
Social Problems of Industrialized Science | 31 |
Science as Craftsmans Work | 75 |
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