Titlebook: Scientific Philosophy Today; Essays in Honor of M Joseph Agassi,Robert S. Cohen Book 1982 D. Reidel Publishing Company, Dordrecht, Holland

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On Hypotheses and Hypotheticism, reasoning leads to the discovery of empirical statistical laws. Interpolation and extrapolation of measurements leads to the discovery of functional dependencies between directly measured magnitudes. These methods can be considered to be generalizations of induction. They can be called inductive methods in a broader sense.

Ornithologist

A Study in Protophysics,protophysics as a crucial step opening new perspectives in present-day philosophy of science, and not only in the narrower field of philosophy of . proper: We could adapt the prefix “proto-” in Bunge’s sense to any other scientific discipline.

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Book 1982s dozens of books in several languages, which will culminate with his Treatise on Basic Philosophy projected in seven volumes, four of which have already appeared [Reidel, I 974ff. ]. He is known for his works on research methods, the foundations of physics, biology, the social sciences, the diverse

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Scientific Philosophy Today978-94-009-8462-2Series ISSN 0068-0346 Series E-ISSN 2214-7942

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Poetic Imagination and Economy: Ernst Mach as Theorist of Science,Mach’s epistemological phenomenalism, the magnificent idea of constructing the world from those elements that are supposed to be nothing but sense impressions, seems to have left the scene of philosophical controversy as a loser.

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Symbolism and Chance,Perhaps the hardest concept in science for most of us to think about is that of randomness. The theme of this essay is that the difficulty arises because of a conflict between thinking in terms of probabilities an-another kind of thinking which I will call symbolic, but which could as well be called analogical.

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