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Waves, Particles, Independent Tests and the Limits of Inductivism

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 June 2023

Larry Laudan
Larry Laudan*
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University of Hawaii
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In this paper, I shall be taking exception to a few of the ideas in Peter Achinstein's recent (1991). In some of these cases, I think he is flat wrong. But that does not diminish in the least my admiration for his book which is, in my judgment, the best extended piece of work we have on the epistemological problems posed by 19th-century physics.

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Part VII. Mill, Whewell, and the Wave-Particle Debate
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PSA: Proceedings of the Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association , Volume 1992 , Issue 2: Volume Two: Symposia and Invited Papers 1992 , 1993 , pp. 212 - 223
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Copyright © 1993 by the Philosophy of Science Association

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