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Foresight and understanding : an enquiry into the aims of science / Stephen Toulmin ; Foreword by Jacques Barzun.
Record no.:
6057
Author:
Toulmin, Stephen, 1922-2009
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Publisher:
London :: Hutchinson,
Year:
1961.
Series:
Nuffield Foundation Unit for the History of Ideas
Description:
115 pages ; 22 cm
Subject:
Science - Philosophy.
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Notes:
"Originated in the thirty-fourth series of Mahlon Powell lectures, delivered at Indiana University in March 1960." Includes index.
Type:
Monograph
Abstract:
Forecasting and understanding -- Ideals of natural order (I) -- Ideals of natural order (II) -- Forms and styles of theory -- The evolution of scientific ideas.
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