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Observation Language | Fraassen | I 56 Phenomenon/Fraassen: phenomena are preserved by being shown to be fragments of a larger unit. VsObservation language: you cannot describe phenomena apart from the rest of the world. >Language, >Method, >Experiments, >Obervation. |
Fr I B. van Fraassen The Scientific Image Oxford 1980 |
Phenomena | Fraassen | I 2 Phenomenon/Fraassen: does not decide about the truth of hypotheses about atoms. Def phenomenon/Fraassen: observable processes and structures. I 44 Phenomenon/Newton: should be preserved. Reality/Newton: is postulated. I 56 Phenomena/Fraassen: preserved by being shown to be fragments of a larger unit. VsObservation Language: one cannot describe phenomena different from the rest of the world. >Observation language, >Observation, >Structures, >Hypotheses, >Theories. |
Fr I B. van Fraassen The Scientific Image Oxford 1980 |
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Observation Language | Fraassen Vs Observation Language | I 56 Empirical Content/Theory/Fraassen: we have seen that we cannot isolate the empirical content of a theory in the interpretation by saying that language consists of two parts (observation language, theoretical terms). That should not surprise us. Phenomenon/Fraassen: the phenomena are preserved if they are proven to be fragments of a larger unit. FraassenVsObservation Language: it would be very strange if the theories described the phenomena, the observable, in other terms than the rest of the world they describe. A conceptual distinction between the observable and the unobservable is always too easy. |
Fr I B. van Fraassen The Scientific Image Oxford 1980 |