Scientific Theories
Representation models as devices for scientific theory applications vs the semantic view of scientific theories: The case of models of the nuclear structure
... of scientific theories and only on rare occations pays attention to how theories are ...SV, scientific theorising involves the perpetual construction and use of theoretical models in the quest ...
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Categories of scientific theories
... studying scientific theories in their totality ...incompatible) theories is not seen merely as a temporary state of confusion as we approach some ultimate truth, but rather the necessary interactions ...
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The epistemological status of scientific theories: An investigation of the structural realist account
... the scientific realism ...a scientific revolution. Successive scientific theories, they claimed, preserve the theoretical relations and referents of earlier theories so long as both ...
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On Separating the Wheat from the Chaff: Surplus Structure and Artifacts in Scientific Theories
... rival theories has been mostly addressed via the latter strat- egy, ...which theories to pair as theoretically ...rival theories do not agree on which parts of these theories constitute ...
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The Duhem thesis, the Quine thesis and the problem of meaning holism in scientific theories
... those theories in the same ...with theories that, so to speak, branch away from the same trunk only at the top of the ...of theories, or about the appearances that theory must save, but he is ...
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History and Reason: The Three Historiographic Paradigms Extracted by Kuhn from Three Scientific Theories
... the scientific ideas and the interpretations of the history of scientific facts, stressing the “parallelisms between the biological evolution and the scientific advancement” (Kuhn, 2000: ...the ...
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Scientific Theories
... some theories formulated in second-order logic also admit a first-order axiomatization; or, in some cases, while the origi- nal theory might not admit a first-order axiomatization, there might be a similar ...
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Social Values Influence the Adequacy Conditions of Scientific Theories: Beyond Inductive Risk
... its scientific use leads to an effect that is more problematic than an alternative definition would ...proper scientific category, and a value-based criticism of a category used (regardless of whether more ...
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CitySpaceMindSpace: How to read Los Angeles: Banham and McLuhan in the light of Cognitive Neuro scientific theories of comprehension
... Going back to my earlier proposition that “I shall try to invoke metaphors which create an impression of the experience of velocitisation” on the radio recently, a planetary scientist spoke about flying an instrument ...
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Some problems in the philosophy of scientific theories
... We might choose, more mundanely, to specify the entities to which it is claimed a theory has application by the rude method of pointing. Thus, pointing to a jar of gas, we might say that phenomenological thermodynamics ...
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On the Inherent Incompleteness of Scientific Theories
... judge theories? Aware that the thesis half-named after him left open this question, Quine (1992, 14-15), himself, suggested a pragmatic approach, which is succinctly summarized in his maxim: maximization of ...
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Elements of Scientific Theories: Relationships
... the scientific method is not going to help you understand ...the scientific method, since it rules out all magical effects by requiring a physical connection between cause and ...
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Relativism and our warrant for scientific theories
... Few people can understand Einstein’s general theory of relativity. Fewer still could articulate the combined body of confirming empirical evidence and mathematical theorising that provide our justification for taking the ...
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EVALUATION OF THE ADAPTABILITY OF SCIENTIFIC THEORIES FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF ACCOUNTING INSTITUTE
... existing scientific concepts for the purposes of developing accounting, and is based on an analysis of the advantages and disadvantages of scientific concepts when applied to research on accounting and the ...
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Theories of causation
... Let us briefly establish where we stand at this point. I have surveyed a variety of theories of causation and found them decisively unsatisfactory. The first general disadvantage is that they all come with a ...
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On perturbations in Horndeski theories
... The DPSV approach makes use of the Einstein equations (7) in order to get rid of the second derivatives of metric perturbations, so that there is only one scalar degree of freedom left ([r] ...
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System Theories: An Overview of Various System Theories and Its Application in Healthcare
... In this paper, various system theories such as General Systems Theory, Chaos Theory, Complex-Adaptive Systems, and Integral Theory are described and discussed within the context of t[r] ...
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GLA:D® Back group based patient education integrated with exercises to support self management of back pain development, theories and scientific evidence
... underlying theories and scientific evi- ...to theories and existing evidence are made explicit during the course, in education material and in publications such as this ...
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Theories of Victimology
... o Victim blamers – victims might share the responsibility with offender if facilitation, precipitation or provocation of the event occurred.. if you’re on the phone in a well-known pl[r] ...
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THEORIES OF LIABILITY
... Smith is a member of The Florida Bar, the American and Palm Beach County bar associations, and the Association of Professional Responsibility Lawyers, and is a fellow of the American C[r] ...
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