ABSTRACT
Originally published in 1966. This volume analyzes the general structure of scientific theories, their relation to experience and to non-scientific thought. Part One is concerned with the logic underlying empirical discourse before its subjection to the various constraints, imposed by the logico-mathematical framework of scientific theories upon their content. Part Two is devoted to an examination of this framework and, in particular, to showing that the deductive organization of a field of experience is by that very act a modification of empirical discourse and an idealization of its subject matter. Part Three analyzes the concordance between theories and experience and the relevance of science to moral and religious beliefs.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part One|80 pages
The differentiation of experience
chapter I|16 pages
Schemata of empirical differentiation
chapter II|16 pages
Empirical classes and individuals
chapter III|13 pages
Logic and inexactness
chapter IV|16 pages
Empirical continuity, perceptual and empirical predicates
chapter V|17 pages
Empirical generality
part Two|97 pages
The deductive unification of experience
chapter VI|15 pages
Hypothetico-deductive systems as idealizations
chapter VII|16 pages
On the mathematics of discrete individuals and complexes
chapter VIII|16 pages
On the mathematics of infinite totalities
chapter IX|17 pages
On probability and statistics
chapter X|16 pages
Quantitative theories
chapter XI|16 pages
Idealization and the unity of substantive theories
part Three|68 pages
Science and experience