Critical rationalism and engineering: ontology.
Engineering is often said to be 'scientific', but the nature of knowledge in engineering is different to science. Engineering has a different ontological basis-its theories address different entities and are judged by different criteria. In this paper I use Popper's three worlds ontological framewor...
| Publicado en: | Synthese Vol. 191; no. 10; pp. 2255 - 2280 |
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