Representation and Invariance of Scientific Structures

Representation and Invariance of Scientific Structures PDF Author: Patrick Suppes
Publisher: Stanford Univ Center for the Study
ISBN: 9781575863337
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 536

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Book Description
A fundamental reason for using formal methods in the philosophy of science is the desirability of having a fixed frame of reference that may be used to organize the variety of doctrines at hand. This book—Patrick Suppes's major work, and the result of several decades of research—examines how set-theoretical methods provide such a framework, covering issues of axiomatic method, representation, invariance, probability, mechanics, and language, including research on brain-wave representations of words and sentences. This is a groundbreaking, essential text from a distinguished philosopher.