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Methodology of Research and Progress in Science

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 March 2022

Erwin Biser  and
Enos E. Witmer
Erwin Biser
Affiliation:
Rutgers University, University of Pennsylvania
Enos E. Witmer
Affiliation:
Rutgers University, University of Pennsylvania
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With the advent of the relativity theory science has entered a transformative period in which previous certainties are undergoing critical scrutiny and renovation. Critical movements in science arise at periods of its history when its foundations are brought into question. True it is that natural philosophers still regard science as a growing body of propositions dealing with natural events enabling them to find the structural laws of the external world. But this “external world” about them changes in significance, interpretation, and meaning as new epoch-making theories are propounded and experimental verification of some of their consequences tend to give them scientific plausibility.

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Research Article
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Philosophy of Science , Volume 14 , Issue 4 , October 1947 , pp. 275 - 288
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Copyright © Philosophy of Science Association 1947

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