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INTRODUCTION 

 THE FIELD OF THE PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE 



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I. PHILOSOPHY AND SCIENCE 3 



Historical Approach 4 



Description vs. Explanation 8 



Factual Description vs. Symbolic Analysis .... 11 



Facts vs. Values 13 



Quantity vs. Quality 15 



Analysis vs. Intuition 18 



II. PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE 21 



Emergence of the Philosophy of Science 21 



The Philosophy of Science 28 



Problems of the Philosophy of Science 33 



General Character of the Study 35 



PART ONE 

 PROBLEMS IN THE LOGIC OF SCIENCE 



III. THE LOGICAL STRUCTURE OF SCIENCE ... 41 



Importance of the Logic of Science 41 



Possibility of the Logic of Science 43 



The Known f 48 



The Knowledge 50 



The Knowing 56 



IV. THE NATURE OF SYMBOLS 61 



Sign Situations 62 



Symbol Situations 63 



Adequacy of Symbols 69 



Kinds of Symbols 72 



V. PERCEPTION 78 



The Starting-Point of Science 78 



Theories of Perception 81 



Scientific Realism 88 



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