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For the philosopher interested in the idea of objective knowledge of the real world, the nature of science is of special importance, for sciencce, and more particularly physics, is today considered to be paradigmatic in its affording of such knowledge. And no understanding of science is complete until it includes an appreciation of the nature of the relation between successive scintific theories—that is, until it includes a conception of scientific progress
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Dilworth, C. (1994). Introduction. In: Scientific Progress. Synthese Library, vol 153. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-0914-7_1
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