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4.10 Scientific Discovery
Оглавление“Discovery” refers to the development of new theories.
Discovery is the first step toward realizing the aim of science. The problem of scientific discovery for contemporary pragmatist philosophers of science is to describe and to proceduralize the development of universally quantified statements for empirical testing with nonfalsifying test outcomes, thereby making laws for use in explanations and test designs.
Much has already been said in the above discussions of philosophy of scientific language in Chapter 3 about the pragmatic basis for the definition of theory language, about the semantic basis for the individuation of theories, and about state descriptions. Those discussions will be assumed in the following comments about the mechanized development of new theories.
