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041	0		_aeng
100	1		_aNagel, Ernest _d1901-1985
245	1	0	_aThe structure of science : _bproblems in the logicof scientific explanation / _cBy Ernest Nagel.
260			_aNew York ; _aChicago ; _aBurlingame : _bHarcourt, Brace & World, Inc., _c1961.
300			_aXIII, 618 p. ; _c23 cm.
504			_aIndex: p. 607-618
505	0		_aContents: 1. Science and common sense; 2. Patterns of scientific explanation; 3. The deductive pattern of explanation; 4. The logical character of scientific laws; 5. Experimental laws and theories; 6. The cognitive status of theories; 7. Mechanical explanations and the science of mechanics; 8. Space and Geometry; 9. Geometry and physics. 10. Causality and interminism in physical theory. 11. The reduction of theories; 12. machanistic explanation and organismic biology; 13. methodological problems of the social sciences; 14. Explanation and understanding in the social sciences; 15. Problems in the logic of historical inquiry.
650	1	4	_aScience _xPhilosophy
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