Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- 1 Introduction
- Part I The nature of science
- 2 Levels of cognitive activity
- 3 Facts in frameworks
- 4 Rationality, irrationality, and relativism
- 5 Knowledge and reality
- 6 A new account of the scientific process
- Part II Does science have distinctive qualities?
- Part III Changing science in a changing world?
- Appendix: Summary of cases of marginal and disputed science
- References
- Index
3 - Facts in frameworks
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 28 January 2010
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- 1 Introduction
- Part I The nature of science
- 2 Levels of cognitive activity
- 3 Facts in frameworks
- 4 Rationality, irrationality, and relativism
- 5 Knowledge and reality
- 6 A new account of the scientific process
- Part II Does science have distinctive qualities?
- Part III Changing science in a changing world?
- Appendix: Summary of cases of marginal and disputed science
- References
- Index
Summary
- Type
- Chapter
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- Uncertain KnowledgeAn Image of Science for a Changing World, pp. 36 - 54Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1996