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Philosophy of science (Wissenschaftstheorie) in Denmark

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The philosophy of science discussion in Denmark has mainly concentrated on the problem of the external world, the problem of induction, the problem of dialectic in the Marxian sense and the strife between ontological viewpoints, originating in the philosophical tradition, and the analytical method emerging in modern mathematics and quantum mechanics. In this discussion Bohr's correspondence argument and his doctrine of language have functioned as tools of analysis and as objects of study as well. In general, Bohr and J. Jørgensen were the creators of the intellectual climate in which the discussion took place.

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Witt-Hansen, J. Philosophy of science (Wissenschaftstheorie) in Denmark. Zeitschrift für Allgemeine Wissenschaftstheorie 1, 264–283 (1970). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01801731

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