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Scientific Method: Realism, Reference and Theory

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 January 2010

Rom Harré
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Extract

The claim of this paper is that only by adopting an approach to the analysis of theorizing based on the highlighting of analogy relations, that is on an analysis of the content of theories, can a defensible form of realism be found.

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Research Article
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Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplements , Volume 24 , March 1988 , pp. 53 - 68
Copyright
Copyright © The Royal Institute of Philosophy and the contributors 1988

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1 Donnellan, K., ‘Reference and Definite Descriptions’, Philosophical Review 75 (1966), 281–304.CrossRefGoogle Scholar