Titlebook: Scientific Progress; A Study Concerning t Craig Dilworth Book 1981 Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 1981 Galileo Galilei.Issac New

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The Popperian Conception of Scientific Progress,n to rest on the Deductive Model, in which scientific laws are conceived to be universal statements of the form: (.) (.→.). And in Chapter 4 an Empiricist conception of progress was presented, also in terms of the model. In the present chapter it will be shown that Popper’s attempts to provide a con

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Kuhn, Feyerabend, and Incommensurability,drawback: the Empiricist view affords no conception of theory conflict, and the Popperian view provides no consistent conception of progress itself. Nevertheless, the intuitive notions motivating each of these philosophies of science, considered independently of the model, appear quite sound. One is

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Development of the Perspectivist Conception in the Context of the Kinetic Theory of Gases,he physics of gases. Though the presentation of this example will for the most part follow the actual development of gas theory, it is not intended to constitute the basis of an historical analysis, but to be a coherent reconstruction capturing the essence of the conceptual moves in this development

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The Set-Theoretic Conception of Science,n terms of a set theoretical predicate. This axiomatization itself appears first in McKinsey, Sugar, and Suppes (1953), and, in an attempt to handle theory dynamics, has been further developed by J. D. Sneed in his book . (1971). In this book Sneed attempts to reconstruct Newtonian particle mechanic

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The Basis of the Popperian Conception of Science, on the other hand, is on the basis of falsifiability. For Popper, if there is no conceivable way that a statement can be shown to be false, while it might still be considered meaningful, it is not scientific but ‘metaphysical’.