| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 376 pages) |
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polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Hypothesis in early modern science / Eman McMullin -- Experience and hypotheses : opinions within Locke's realm / Rainer Specht -- Hypotheses in 19th century British philosophy of science : Herschel, Whewell, Mill -- From axioms to conventions and hypotheses : the foundations of mechanics and the roots of Carl Neumann's "principles of the Galilean-Newtonian theory" -- Contingent laws of nature in Émile Boutroux / Michael Heidelberger -- Pluralism and the hypothetical in Heinrich Hertz's philosophy of science / Andreas Hüttemann -- Hypotheses and conventions in Poincaré / Gerhard Heinzmann -- Hypothesis and convention in Poincaré's defense of Galilei spacetime / Scott Walter -- Vaihinger and Poincaré : an original pragmatism? / Christophe Bouriau -- Werner Heisenberg's position on a hypothetical conception of science / Gregor Schiemann -- "Instrumentalism" and "realism" as categories in the history of astronomy : Duhem vs. Popper, Maimonides vs. Gersonides / Gad Freudenthal -- Hypotheticity and realism : Duhem, Popper and scientific realism / Andreas Bartels -- The hypothesis of reality and the reality of hypotheses / Alfred Nordmann -- Hypothetical metaphysics of nature / Michael Esfield. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Reasoning.
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Reasoning. |
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Hypothesis.
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Hypothesis. |
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Science -- Methodology.
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Science -- Methodology. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Heidelberger, Michael.
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Schiemann, Gregor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Significance of the hypothetical in natural science. Berlin ; New York : Walter de Gruyter, ©2009 9783110206944 (DLC) 2009027595 (OCoLC)427438353 |
| ISBN |
9783110210620 (electronic book) |
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3110210622 (electronic book) |
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9783110206944 (hardcover ; alkaline paper) |
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3110206943 (hardcover ; alkaline paper) |
| Standard No. |
9786612714498 |
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