FORMAL METHODS IN THE METHODOLOGY OF EMPIRICAL SCIENCES
Written by Marian Przelecki, Klemens Szaniawski, Rysard Wojcicki
Published by D. Reidel Publishing Company
in 1976
ISBN: 9027706980
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FORMAL METHODS IN THE METHODOLOGY OF EMPIRICAL SCIENCES
Written by Marian Przelecki, Klemens Szaniawski, Rysard Wojcicki.
Stock no. 989082
1st.
1976.
Hardback.
Almost very good condition.
Proceedings of the Conference for Formal Methods in the Methodology of Empirical Sciences, Warsaw, June 17-21, 1974. Edited by Przelecki, Szaniawski and Wojcicki. Blue cloth boards, silver title to spine. 457 pages. ISBN: 9027706980. Ex-lib, stamps & usual markings to prelims and text block, else contents very good.
Front cover
Contents
- A
- Some problems of formal methodology
- Approximate truth and truthlikeness
- A multiple sentential logic for empirical theories
- An axiomatic foundation for the logic of inductive generalization
- A two-dimensional continuum of a priori probability distributions on constituents
- Inductive logic and theoretical concepts
- A pragmatic approach to the formalization of empirical theories
- Uncertainty, probability and empirical knowledge
- The concept of empirical data
- Interpretation of theoretical terms: In defence of an empiricist dogma
- Definability problems in the methodology of science
- Laws, identities and reduction
- On logical analysis of methods
- Axiomatization in expected utility theory
- A logical model for game-like situations and the transformation of game-like situations
- Indeterminate probabilities
- Theoretical laws
- Causality, ontology and subsumptive explanation
- On the introduction of intensions into set theory
- Types of information and their role in the methodology of science
- Classification and ranking models in the discrete data analysis
- What have physicists learned from experience about inductive inference?
- B (Papers presented by title):
- Verisimilitude: Popper, Miller and Hattiangadi
- On a general scheme of causal analysis
- Logic of quantum mechanics
- On possibilities and limits of the application of inductive methods
- Correspondence principle and the idealization
- Pragmatic meaning and truth
- Semantic complementarity in quantitative empirical sciences
- Marx's concept of law of science
- The impossiility theorem for universal theory of prediction
- Scientific knowledge-formation
- The methodology of behaviroral theory construction: Nomological-deductive and axiomatic aspects of formalized theory
- Intertheory relations on the formal and semantical level