Representation and Perspective in Science

The world science describes tends to have a very strange look. We can’t see atoms or force fields, nor are they imaginable within visualizable categories, so neither can we even imagine what the world must be like according to recent physical theories. That tension, between what science depicts as r...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Bas C. van Fraassen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina 2007-12-01
Series:Principia: An International Journal of Epistemology
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Online Access:http://www.periodicos.ufsc.br/index.php/principia/article/view/15403/13985

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