On the Epistemology of the Inexact Sciences

作者: Olaf Helmer , Nicholas Rescher

DOI: 10.1287/MNSC.6.1.25

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摘要: This is a new epistemological approach to the inexact sciences. The purpose of all science explain and predict in an objective manner. While exact sciences explanation prediction have same logical structure, this not so permits various methodological innovations sciences, e.g., expert judgment simulation.

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