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Reconstructing Science: Discovery and Experiment

  • Nickles T
Springer Netherlands, (1988), 33-53
DOI: 10.1007/978-94-009-2875-6_3
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Abstract

Science transforms itself by more or less continuously reworking its previous results and techniques. To miss the dynamical, self-reconstructive nature of scientific work is to miss the extent to which scientific inquiry is a bootstrap affair. I shall call non-reconstructive views of science single-pass or one-pass models of scientific inquiry. Here are some examples of reconstruction.

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Nickles, T. (1988). Reconstructing Science: Discovery and Experiment. In Theory and Experiment (pp. 33–53). Springer Netherlands. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-2875-6_3

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