• The Logic of Modern Physics is a 1927 philosophy of science book by American physicist and Nobel laureate Percy Williams Bridgman. The book is notable...
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    Operationalization (category Epistemology of science)
    which we measure them. The practice originated in the field of physics with the philosophy of science book The Logic of Modern Physics (1927), by Percy Williams...
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  • Naturwissenschaft, which literally translates as, "Logic of Research: On the Epistemology of Modern Natural Science"'. Popper argues that science should...
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  • that all science has a degree of interpretivism.: 29  In the 1920s, Percy Bridgman's The Logic of Modern Physics and the operationalism presented was centered...
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    Chapter 7, "inductive Logic and Statistics" Popper K (1959). The Logic of Scientific Discovery. Routledge. ISBN 978-0-415-27844-7. The German version is currently...
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    Empiricism (redirect from Modern empiricism)
    Rescher, Nicholas (1985), The Heritage of Logical Positivism, University Press of America, Lanham, MD. Rock, Irvin (1983), The Logic of Perception, MIT Press...
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    Percy Williams Bridgman (category Nobel laureates in Physics)
    attempted the synthesis of diamond many times. His philosophy of science book The Logic of Modern Physics (1927) advocated operationalism and coined the term...
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  • Behavioralism (category Subfields of political science)
    predict political behaviour. It is associated with the rise of the behavioural sciences, modeled after the natural sciences. Behaviouralism claims it can...
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    Event (relativity) (category Theory of relativity)
    W. Bridgman found the event concept insufficient for operational physics in his book The Logic of Modern Physics. Relativity of simultaneity A.P. French...
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  • mathematical physics. He realized that the submanifold, of events one moment of proper time into the future, could be considered a hyperbolic space of three...
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    theoretical knowledge of the physics involved in maintaining a state of balance cannot substitute for the practical knowledge of how to ride, and that...
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    argues, in his On the Logic of the Social Sciences (1967), that "the positivist thesis of unified science, which assimilates all the sciences to a natural-scientific...
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  • humanities. It describes the effort to understand the meaning of contingent, unique, and often cultural or subjective phenomena. The problem of whether to use nomothetic...
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  • individual theories. Field takes the example of the term "mass", and asks what exactly "mass" means in modern post-relativistic physics. He finds that there are...
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  • mechanics", Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part B: Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics, 35 (4): 693, arXiv:quant-ph/0402047, Bibcode:2004SHPMP...
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  • Methodenstreit (category Historical school of economics)
    English title: Principles of Economics), that economics was the work of philosophical logic and could only ever be about developing rules from first principles —...
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    Postpositivism (category Metatheory of science)
    der Forschung, rewritten in English as The Logic of Scientific Discovery (1959) Thomas Kuhn (1962) The Structure of Scientific Revolutions Karl Popper (1963)...
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  • Post-behavioralism (category Subfields of political science)
    neo-behaviouralism) was a reaction against the dominance of behavioralist methods in the study of politics. One of the key figures in post-behaviouralist thinking...
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    Antipositivism (category Philosophy of science)
    difference between the empirical sciences of action, such as sociology and history, and any kind of a priori discipline, such as jurisprudence, logic, ethics, or...
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    psychology the positivist movement was influential in the development of operationalism. The 1927 philosophy of science book The Logic of Modern Physics in particular...
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  • verifiable (i.e. confirmed through the senses) or a truth of logic (e.g., tautologies). Verificationism rejects statements of metaphysics, theology, ethics...
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  • between the theories of justification and Agrippa's five modes leading to the suspension of belief. He concludes that the modern proponents have made...
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  • classical logic by quantum logic, rather as Newtonian physics gave way to Einsteinian physics. The idea that logical laws are not immune to revision in the light...
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  • used the term science sociale to describe the field, taken from the ideas of Charles Fourier; Comte also referred to the field as social physics. Following...
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    (1927). The Logic of Modern Physics. Church, Alonzo (1940). The Concept of a Random Sequence. Cramér, Harald (1946). Mathematical Methods of Statistics...
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    searched and obtained a job in October as a professor of physics and chemistry at the college of Bar-sur-Aube. His wife, Jeanne Rossi, a schoolteacher...
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  • Constructive empiricism (category Metatheory of science)
    from physics to psychology (especially computational psychology). Structuralism (philosophy of science), a related view Votsis, I. (2004), The Epistemological...
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    Structural functionalism (category History of sociology)
    functionalists do not necessarily explain the original cause of a phenomenon with reference to its effect. Yet the logic stated in reverse, that social phenomena...
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    Critical theory (category Articles with Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy links)
    proponents'] thesis: the assertion of reason, logic and evidence is a manifestation of privilege and power. Thus, any challenger risks the stigma of a bigoted oppressor...
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    attention to how the subjectivity of both the researcher and the study participants can affect the theory that develops out of the research. The symbolic interactionist...
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