Titlebook: Classifying Science; Phenomena, Data, The Rick Szostak Book 2004 Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2004 document.science.scientific prac

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Classifying Phenomena and Data,ena they study, they are unlikely to proceed very far in understanding how particular phenomena evolve or influence each other. “In the [natural] sciences the development of ‘pure’ elements and homogenous, stable phenomena was a key point in the emergence of modern chemistry and other natural scienc

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Classifying Theory,recise definition of scientific theory will be given. Scientific theories can be distinguished from a range of philosophical theories. Some philosophical theories deal with questions of epistemology: how much and how can humans understand? Theories about the nature of mathematics and mathematical re

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Classifying Method,he last chapter with scientific explanation. It was also noted that scholars can only have confidence in theories to the extent that these are logical, coherent, clear, and .. To be sure, philosophers of science, if not practicing scientists, now accept that scientific methods can neither prove nor

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Drawing Connections Across These Classifications,eories should be tested with certain methods. That is, if a theory posits a certain form of agency, a method that is particularly good with that form of agency should be used. There is an important kernel of truth in this idea. In the natural sciences, theories involving non-intentional agency are m

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Concluding Remarks,ns themselves; the advantages that flow from these; the insights from comparisons across classifications; and the various Golden Mean arguments (see chapter 1) that have both supported and been supported by these efforts at classification. Three broad questions are then addressed: “Why should scienc

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1568-1300 etailed classification of different types of science. ..In this book, science?- defined broadly to include the social sciences and humanities?- is first unpacked into its constituent elements: the phenomena studied, the data used, the theories employed, the methods applied, and the practices of scie

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