The scientific image twenty years later

Philosophical Studies 106 (1-2):107 - 122 (2001)
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Abstract

What we represent to ourselves behind the appear- ances exists only in our understanding . . . [having] only the value of memoria technica or formula whose form, because it is arbitrary and irrelevant, varies . . . with the standpoint of our culture.

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The Dappled World: A Study of the Boundaries of Science.Nancy Cartwright - 1999 - New York, NY: Cambridge University Press.
The scientific image.C. Van Fraassen Bas - 1980 - New York: Oxford University Press.
Democracy and Education.John Dewey - 1916 - Mineola, N.Y.: Dover Publications.

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