Nominalism, contingency, and natural structure.
Ian Hacking's wide-ranging and penetrating analysis of science contains two well-developed lines of thought. The first emphasizes the contingent history of our inquiries into nature, focusing on the various ways in which our concepts and styles of reasoning evolve through time, how their current app...
| Published in: | Synthese Vol. 198; no. 6; pp. 5281 - 5297 |
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Springer Nature
Jun2021
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