Duhem’s Analysis of Newtonian Method and the Logical Priority of Physics over Metaphysics
This article offers a discussion of Duhemian analysis of Newton's method in the Principia considering both the traditional response to this analysis (Popper et alii) and the more recent ones (Harper et alii). It is argued that in General Scholium to the Principia, Newton is not advocating what...
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| Language: | English |
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Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
2017-06-01
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| Series: | Transversal: International Journal for the Historiography of Science |
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| Online Access: | http://www.historiographyofscience.org/index.php/transversal/article/view/39/45 |