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" Essays in Honor of Carl G. Hempel : "
edited by Nicholas Rescher.
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BL
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714393
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b536543
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edited by Nicholas Rescher.
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Essays in Honor of Carl G. Hempel : : a Tribute on the Occasion of his Sixty-Fifth Birthday\ edited by Nicholas Rescher.
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Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 1969
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Synthese Library, Monographs on Epistemology, Logic, Methodology, Philosophy of Science, Sociology of Science and of Knowledge, and on the Mathematical Methods of Social and Behavioral Sciences, 24.
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(ix, 274 pages)
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9401714665
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: 9789401714662
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Reminiscences of Peter --;Natural Kinds --;Inductive Independence and the Paradoxes of Confirmation --;Partial Entailment as a Basis for Inductive Logic --;Are There Non-Deductive Logics? --;Statistical Explanation vs. Statistical Inference --;Newcomb's Problem and Two Principles of Choice --;The Meaning of Time --;Lawfulness as Mind-Dependent --;Events and Their Descriptions: Some Considerations --;The Individuation of Events --;On Properties --;A Method for Avoiding the Curry Paradox --;Publications (1934-1969) by Carl G. Hempel --;Index of Names.
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The papers are grouped around the unifying topic of Hempel's own interests in logic and philosophy of science, the great majority dealing with issues on inductive logic and the theory of scientific explanatio- problems to which Hempel has devoted the bulk of his outstandingly fruitful efforts.
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Philosophy (General)
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Science -- Philosophy.
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Nicholas Rescher
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