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Kitcher, Philip
Professor of Philosophy, Columbia University
Print publication date: 2001 (this edition)
Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: November 2003 Print ISBN-13: 978-0-19-514583-0 |
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doi:10.1093/0195145836.003.0004
Abstract: So far the account given has favoured champions of the sciences. At this stage, the book acknowledges an insight of their critics, proposing that there is no privileged language for talking about nature. Scientific language, it is suggested, develops in response to human purposes.
Keywords: aims of science, scientific language, 
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Four The World as We Make It
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