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Hempel, 1966, prenticehall edition, in english philosophy of natural science 1966 edition open library. Materialists sometimes claim to have grounded aboutness in natural regularities. A prenote natural science, in the general sense of an ordered enquiry into the way things we experience relate to one another, actually began as soon as human curiosity first looked at the world and started to organize observations and anticipate results. Published august 25th 1966 by pearson first published.
Carl gustav hempel 19051997 carl hempel, a germanborn philosopher who immigrated to the united states, was one of the prominent philosophers of science in the twentieth century. Aboutness by stephen yablo overdrive rakuten overdrive. Fetzer oxford university press, 2001 ps primary source a primary source is a work that is being studied, or that provides firsthand or direct evidence on a topic. A master of philosophical methodology, hempel pursued explications of initially vague and ambiguous concepts, which were required to satisfy very specific criteria.
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