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Science Nominalized?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 April 2022

Susan C. Hale  and
Michael D. Resnik
Susan C. Hale
Affiliation:
Department of Philosophy University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Michael D. Resnik
Affiliation:
Department of Philosophy University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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Abstract

We argue that Horgan's program for nominalizing science fails, because its translation of quantitative statements destroys the inferential structures of explanations, predictions and retrodictions of nonquantitative scientific facts.

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Discussion
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Philosophy of Science , Volume 54 , Issue 2 , June 1987 , pp. 277 - 280
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Horgan, T., (1984), “Science Nominalized”, Philosophy of Science 51: 529–549.CrossRefGoogle Scholar