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Bogen and Woodward's data-phenomena distinction, forms of theory-ladenness, and the reliability of data.

Some twenty years ago, Bogen and Woodward challenged one of the fundamental assumptions of the received view, namely the theory-observation dichotomy and argued for the introduction of the further category of scientific phenomena. The latter, Bogen and Woodward stressed, are usually unobservable and...

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Published in:Synthese Vol. 182; no. 1; pp. 39 - 56
Main Author: Schindler, Samuel
Format: Article
Published: Springer Nature Sep2011
Subjects:
Bogen, James
Woodward, James
Reliability (Personality trait)
Scientific observation
Case studies
Magnetic anomalies
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