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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... subtle and particular instructions and precepts for avoiding pitfalls which might produce obvious damage ( as to the ... subtle , any set of explicit precepts will fall short of conveying it . In any real situation there are too many ...
... subtle and particular instructions and precepts for avoiding pitfalls which might produce obvious damage ( as to the ... subtle , any set of explicit precepts will fall short of conveying it . In any real situation there are too many ...
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... subtle craftsman's work on the very special objects of scientific knowledge . But it is not an entirely undifferentiated set of intuitive procedures . Using the categories of data , information , evidence , and argument , one could ...
... subtle craftsman's work on the very special objects of scientific knowledge . But it is not an entirely undifferentiated set of intuitive procedures . Using the categories of data , information , evidence , and argument , one could ...
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... subtle reality ) go their separate ways once the report enters the public domain . They provide different sorts of stimuli to later workers , serve different functions , and vary in their permanence . It is through the interweaving of ...
... subtle reality ) go their separate ways once the report enters the public domain . They provide different sorts of stimuli to later workers , serve different functions , and vary in their permanence . It is through the interweaving of ...
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Introduction | 1 |
Social Problems of Industrialized Science | 31 |
Science as Craftsmans Work | 75 |
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