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" Discovery and decision : "
Rebecca Bryant.
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BL
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1005734
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b760104
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Main Entry
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Bryant, Rebecca,1970-
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Title & Author
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Discovery and decision : : exploring the metaphysics and epistemology of scientific classification /\ Rebecca Bryant.
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Publication Statement
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Madison [N.J.] :: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press,, ©2000.
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131 pages ;; 24 cm
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ISBN
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0838638767
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: 9780838638767
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 125-128) and index.
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Abstract
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"Discovery and Decision takes a fresh look at the philosophical question of scientific classification, by illustrating that the natural world can be divided into competing classes or kinds, all of which are scientifically significant; by showing that scientists make a choice between competing classifications when they carve up the natural world: scientific classification involves both metaphysics (the way the world is) and epistemology (human aims, theories, and commitments); and by introducing a new model of classification (based on recent developments in the psychology of categorization) to explain the differing ways in which scientists carve up the natural world."--Jacket.
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Classification of sciences.
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Knowledge, Theory of.
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Metaphysics.
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Knowledge.
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Metaphysics.
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Science-- classification.
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Classification des sciences.
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Classification of sciences.
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Classification of sciences.
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Connaissance, Théorie de la.
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Knowledge, Theory of.
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Knowledge, Theory of.
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Metaphysics.
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Metaphysics.
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Sciences-- Méthodologie.
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Dewey Classification
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001/.01/2
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LC Classification
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BD241.B785 2000
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