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050	0	0	_aB67 _b.S58
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100	1		_aSmith, Peter James, _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aRealism and the Progress of Science / _cPeter James Smith.
246	3		_aRealism & the Progress of Science
264		1	_aCambridge : _bCambridge University Press, _c1981.
300			_a1 online resource (144 pages) : _bdigital, PDF file(s).
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
490	0		_aCambridge Studies in Philosophy
500			_aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 28 Feb 2017).
520			_aThis 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.
650		0	_aRealism
650		0	_aReference (philosophy)
650		0	_aHermeneutics
650		0	_aAnalysis (Philosophy)
776	0	8	_iPrint version: _z9780521239370
830		0	_aCambridge Studies in Philosophy.
856	4	0	_uhttps://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511897597
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