In Measuring and Reasoning, Fred L. Bookstein examines the way
ordinary arithmetic and numerical patterns are translated into
scientific understanding, showing how the process relies on two
carefully managed forms of argument: • Abduction: the generation of
new hypotheses to accord with findings that were surprising on
previous hypotheses, and • Consilience: the confirmation of
numerical pattern claims by analogous findings at other levels of
measurement. These profound principles include an understanding of the
role of arithmetic and, more importantly, of how numerical patterns
found in one study can relate to numbers found in others. More than
200 figures and diagrams illuminate the text. The book can be read
with profit by any student of the empirical nature or social sciences
and by anyone concerned with how scientists persuade those of us who
are not scientists why we should credit the most important claims
about scientific facts or theories.
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ISBN
9781107720534
Publisert
2014
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Cambridge University Press
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Engelsk
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Digital bok
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