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| Experiment: artificial bringing about of an event or artificial creation of a state for testing a hypothesis. Experiments can lead to the reformulation of the initial hypotheses and the reformulation of theories. See also theories, measuring, science, hypotheses, Bayesianism, confirmation, events, paradigm change, reference systems._____________Annotation: The above characterizations of concepts are neither definitions nor exhausting presentations of problems related to them. Instead, they are intended to give a short introduction to the contributions below. – Lexicon of Arguments. | |||
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Bas van Fraassen on Experiments - Dictionary of Arguments
I 73 Theory/Experiment/Science/Fraassen: Tradition: the theory will learn about structure of the world. Experiment: tests the theory - in contrast to that: New/Duhem: search for empirical regularities - the search finds its way into the language itself. >Regularities, >Observation language, >Duhem. Experiment/New: 1. test the empirical adequacy of the theory. 2. fill gaps. Theory/New: 1. formulation of questions 2. guidelines for experimental setup. Glymour: it may be that a theory is better supported by evidence is than another, even though both are empirically equivalent. >Empirical equivalence. I 77 Experiment/Fraassen: is the continuation of the theory-construction by other means. >Theories._____________Explanation of symbols: Roman numerals indicate the source, arabic numerals indicate the page number. The corresponding books are indicated on the right hand side. ((s)…): Comment by the sender of the contribution. Translations: Dictionary of Arguments The note [Concept/Author], [Author1]Vs[Author2] or [Author]Vs[term] resp. "problem:"/"solution:", "old:"/"new:" and "thesis:" is an addition from the Dictionary of Arguments. If a German edition is specified, the page numbers refer to this edition. |
Fr I B. van Fraassen The Scientific Image Oxford 1980 |
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Ed. Martin Schulz, access date 2024-04-27