Author | Krajewski, Wลadysลaw. author |
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Title | Correspondence Principle and Growth of Science [electronic resource] / by Wลadysลaw Krajewski |
Imprint | Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 1977 |
Connect to | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-1178-5 |
Descript | XIV, 138 p. online resource |
1. Correspondence Principle -- 1.1. Bohrโs Principle -- 1.2. The Attitude of Philosophers -- 1.3. A General Methodological Principle in Physics -- 1.4. Descriptive and Normative Versions -- 1.5. Some Logical Difficulties -- Notes to Chapter 1 -- 2. Idealization and Factualization -- 2.1. Scientific Law an an Implication -- 2.2. Factual and Idealizational Laws -- 2.3. Idealization in Science -- 2.4. The Attitude of Philosophers -- 2.5. Idealization and Factualization -- 2.6. Idealization and Essence -- 2.7. Some Controversial Issues -- Notes to Chapter 2 -- 3. Reduction -- 3.1. The Concept of Reduction -- 3.2. Heterogeneous Reduction -- 3.3. Non-Mechanistic Reductionism -- 3.4. Trivial Homogeneous Reduction -- 3.5. Non-Trivial Homogeneous Reduction -- 3.6. Reduction of an Idealizational Law to a Factual One -- Notes to Chapter 3 -- 4. Correspondence Relation -- 4.1. Definition -- 4.2. Simple Implicative Version -- 4.3. Approximative Version -- 4.4. Explanative Version -- 4.5. โDialecticalโ Version -- 4.6. Renewed Implicative Version -- 4.7. Some Formal Features -- 4.8. Correspondence Sequence and Correspondence Network -- Notes to Chapter 4 -- 5. The Problem of the Incommensurability and Relations Among Theories -- 5.1. The Claim of Incommensurability -- 5.2. The Problem of Meaning Variance -- 5.3. The Problem of โUntranslatableโ Languages -- 5.4. The Problem of the โTheory-Ladennessโ of Facts -- 5.5. Various Relations Among Theories -- Notes to Chapter 5 -- 6. The Types of Methodological Empiricism -- 6.1. Inductivism -- 6.2. Hypothetism -- 6.3. Pluralistic Hypothetism -- 6.4. Idealizational Hypothetism -- 6.5. Pluralistic Idealizational Hypothetism -- 6.6. A Confrontation: the Diversity of Methods -- Notes to Chapter 6 -- 7. Revolutions and Continuity -- 7.1. Simple Cumulativism (No Revolutions or One Revolution) -- 7.2. Simple Anticumulativism (Permanent Revolution or Occasional Revolutions Without Continuity) -- 7.3. A Dialectical View (Revolutions and Continuity) -- 7.4. The Threshold of Maturity (Two Kinds of Revolutions) -- 7.5. Periods of Evolution and of Revolution -- 7.6. The Concept of Revolution and Anti-Cumulative Changes -- Notes to Chapter 7 -- 8. Relative and Absolute Truth -- 8.1. Relative Truth -- 8.2. Absolute Truths in Science -- 8.3. Truth-Content and Approximate Truth -- 8.4. The Truth of Idealizational Laws and of Their Factualizations -- 8.5. Relative Truth and Essence -- 8.6. Towards the Absolute Truth -- Notes to Chapter 8 -- 9. Internal and External History of Science -- 9.1. Internal and External Factors -- 9.2. The Problem of the Methodological Historicism -- 9.3. Internal History as an Idealization -- Notes to Chapter 9 -- Index of Names