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Scientific Explanation: A Study of the Function of Theory, Probability and Law in Science. Based upon the Tarner Lectures, 1946.

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Scientific Explanation: A Study of the Function of Theory, Probability and Law in Science. Based upon the Tarner Lectures, 1946. Hardback - 1956

by Braithwaite, Richard Bevan

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New York: Cambridge University Press, 1956. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/No Dust Jacket. 8.50 x 5.75 x 1.35 inches. Scientific Explanation: A Study of the Function of Theory, Probability and Law in Science in Near Fine or Very Good+ condition without a dust jacket. Hardcover 1st American printing - third overall printing (1956). The covers are in great shape. The binding is tight. The interior pages are unmarked. Small abrasion to the front flyleaf and there is a small chip out of the rear flyleaf. The book will be carefully packaged for shipment for protection from the elements. USPS electronic tracking number issued free of charge. The primary purpose of this book is to examine the logical features common to all the sciences. Each science proceeds by inventing general principles from which are deduced the consequences to be tested by observation and experiment; the author shows how the implications of this process explain some of its more baffling features and resolves many of the difficulties that philosophers have found in them. His exposition is by way of detailed examples.
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The primary purpose of this book is to examine the logical features common to all the sciences. Each science proceeds by inventing general principles from which are deduced the consequences to be tested by observation and experiment; the author shows how the implications of this process explain some of its more baffling features and resolves many of the difficulties that philosophers have found in them. His exposition is by way of detailed examples.

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