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In diesem Artikel wird der wissenschaftstheoretische Stand der Geochronologie mit Hintergrund in den Arbeiten von Kuhn und besonders Popper diskutiert. Die Geochronologie wird untersucht mit Hinblick auf generelle methodologische Voraussetzungen, Terminologie, normalwissenschaftliche Aktivitätsform und “theoretische Dogmatik”. Als Konklusion ergibt sich, daß die fundamentalen Theoriekonstruktionen der Geochronologie nicht testbar sind, sondern als ein metaphysisches Forschungsprogramm im Sinne Poppers charakterisiert werden müssen.
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I wish to thank Bo Holm Jacobsen and Niels Abrahamsen, both Institute of Geology, University of Aarhus, for their detailed and constructive criticism of an earlier version of this paper.
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Øhrstrøm, P. Geochronology as a metaphysical research programme. Zeitschrift für Allgemeine Wissenschaftstheorie 18, 204–214 (1987). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01801086
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