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Concepts without Primitives

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 March 2022

C. West Churchman
C. West Churchman*
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Case Institute of Technology
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1. Outline of the Project. This paper is intended to be a progress report on a project in philosophy of science. The immediate stimulus of this report is the eightieth birthday of E. A. Singer, Jr., who was the inspiration of the project, and, needless to say, though responsible for the whole is not responsible for the misconceptions in the specific parts.

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Philosophy of Science , Volume 20 , Issue 4 , October 1953 , pp. 257 - 265
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Copyright © 1953, The Williams & Wilkins Company

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Footnotes

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Presented to the May, 1953 meeting of the Fullerton Club, under the title “Science without Foundations.”

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