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William Whewell’s Semantic Account of Induction [PDF]
HOPOS: The Journal of the International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science, 2018 William Whewell’s account of induction differs dramatically from the one familiar from twentieth-century debates. I argue that Whewell’s induction can be usefully understood by comparing the difference between his views and more standard accounts to contemporary debates between semantic and syntactic views of theories: rather than understanding ...
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, 2017 A leading classical utilitarian, John Stuart Mill is an unlikely contributor to the public reason tradition in political philosophy. To hold that social rules or political institutions are justified by their contribution to overall happiness is to deny ...
Turner, Piers Norris
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, 2003 Sir Arthur Eddington is considered one of the greatest astrophysicist of the twentieth century and yet he gained a stigma when, in the 1930s, he embarked on a quest to develop a unified theory of gravity and quantum mechanics.
Durham, Ian T.
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A brief history of the concept of waste in production [PDF]
Purpose: The concept of waste has been used in relation to production since the beginning of the 20th century. As it is well-known, it is a foundational notion for the Toyota Production System and its derivatives, like lean production.
Koskela, Lauri, Rooke, John, Sacks, R.
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Filosofía e Historia de las Ciencias : ¿Casamiento por necesidad o por conveniencia? En torno a la evaluación de Filosofías de las Ciencias [PDF]
, 2013 Fil: Gómez, Ricardo J..
Gómez, Ricardo J.
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"I would sooner die than give up": Huxley and Darwin's deep disagreement. [PDF]
Hist Philos Life Sci, 2021 Winsor MP.
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"His ignorance was as remarkable as his knowledge" : Weiß Sherlock Holmes, was er tut? [PDF]
, 2013 "His ignorance", so lesen wir im zweiten Kapitel von Conan Doyles 'A Study in Scarlet', das den Titel "Science of Deduction" trägt, "his ignorance was as remarkable as his knowledge".
Wirth, Uwe
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It Is Time to Balance the Risks With Notions of Good. [PDF]
J Perianesth Nurs, 2021 Stannard D.
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A "Mean Quarrelsome Spirit:" Controversy in British Systematics, 1822-1836. [PDF]
J Hist Biol, 2023 Mursinna JT.
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Restoring necessary connections: Lady Mary Shepherd on Hume and the early nineteenth-century debate on causality [PDF]
, 2011 In her Essay upon the Relation of Cause and Effect, published in 1824, Lady Mary Shepherd aimed to criticise Hume’s assumption that causal relations are based on custom and belief, stressing instead that causal thinking is matter of reasoning.
Paoletti, Cristina
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