Xll CONTENTS 



The real world 29 



Determinism 30 



Continuity 30 



Dissolubility 31 



The Subject Matter of Science 31 



RECURRENCE AND REPRODUCIBILITY 31 



Facts historical and scientific 33 



Uniqueness and identity 34 



CONCURRENCE 36 



REGULARITY 39 



DATA AND JUDGMENT 42 



The Organization of Experience 43 



CONSTRUCTS 43 



SCIENTIFIC CONCEPTS 46 



The strangeness of scientific concepts 46 



Concepts and the anatomization of experience 48 



COLLIGATIVE RELATIONS ("lAWS") 49 



The law of the lever 50 



Denotation 54 



The ensemble of colligative relations 55 



SCIENTIFIC THEORIES 57 



The kinetic theory 58 



Remembering, understanding, discovering 60 



Theories and nets 61 



Chapter TTT 



THE ANATOMY OF SCIENCE 63 



The Evolution of Science 63 



The principle of intelligibility 65 



SOME DIFFICULTIES 67 



The choice of problems 67 



Heuristic tools 67 



Organization 68 



