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Knowing in a scientific context displays itself in the arguments given and the actions taken in actual scientific work. As a concrete example of such arguments and actions, James Watson’s celebrated account of the discovery, by Francis Crick and himself, of the structure of DNA, the heredity molecule, [Watson, 1968], will here be analyzed for the evidence it gives of how scientific knowing is constituted and grows.
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Naur, P. (1995). The Structure of DNA: Knowing in Biological Discovery. In: Knowing and the Mystique of Logic and Rules. Studies in Cognitive Systems, vol 18. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-8549-1_14
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