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  • The Structure and Growth of Scientific Knowledge

    A Study in the Methodology of Epistemic Appraisal

    by G.L. Pandit ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    Professor Pandit, working among the admirable group of philosophers at the University of Delhi, has written a fundamental criticism and a constructive re-interpretation of all that has been preserved as serious epistemological and methodological reflections on the sciences in modern Western philosoph- from the times of Galileo, Newton, Descartes and Leibniz to those of Russell and Wittgenstein, ... Read more

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    Essays in Epistemological Ontology and the Methodology of Science

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    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    For a philosopher with an abiding interest in the nature of objective knowledge systems in science, what could be more important than trying to think in terms of those very subjects of such knowledge to which men like Galileo, Newton, Max Planck, Einstein and others devoted their entire lifetimes? In certain respects, these systems and their structures may not be beyond the grasp of a linguistic ... Read more

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