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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      07 October 2011
      03 December 1981
      ISBN:
      9780511897597
      9780521110341
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511897597
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      Dimensions:
      (216 x 140 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.19kg, 144 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Philosophy: General Interest, Philosophy of Science, Ethics, Philosophy
      Series:
      Cambridge Studies in Philosophy
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    Subjects:
    Philosophy: General Interest, Philosophy of Science, Ethics, Philosophy
    Series:
    Cambridge Studies in Philosophy
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    This book examines the philosophical foundations of the realist view of the progress of science as cumulative. It is a view that has recently been faced with a number of powerful attacks in which successive scientific theories are seen, not as extending their scope and honing their explanations, but as incommensurable. There is, it is held, in principle no way of establishing that they are about the same things. From the voluminous literature on the topic, Dr Smith has selected relevantly and incisively and his exposition of the contending arguments is vigourous and clear, without undue technicality. As an explication and defence of realism it will interest all those concerned with this basic question in the philosophy of science and the philosophy of language.

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