Galileo and the Art of Reasoning: Rhetorical Foundation of Logic and Scientific Method (Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science)

by M . A . Finocchiaro (Author)

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  Hardcover
  1980

  $240.90

  The work of Galileo has long been important not only as a foundation of modern physics but also as a model - and perhaps the paradigmatic model - of scientific method, and therefore as a leading example of scientific rationality. Specifically, how and on what grounds are we to accept or reject scientific theories, or scientific reasoning?