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PCNL Library -Philosophy of Science |
 | | Where philosophy of the sciences, with its distant origins in natural philosophy, is historically tied to individual sciences, philosophy of science has had much broader philosophical associations and has indeed had in recent centuries a strong influence on philosophy generally, most especially on epistemology, of which it constitutes a significant part. |
| | The historical dimension of science could manifest itself in yet a third way when scientific rationality, that is, the norms that constitute science as science, themselves are viewed as subject to change, as dependent perhaps on historical context. |
| | Restoring the historical dimension to science, recognizing how far from simple rule are many of the decisions that scientists must make in the course of their work, led from logicism to what has at times amounted almost to an anti-logicism, seen in its most extreme form in Feyerabend's later writings. |
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