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Unity of Science (Paperback, 1977 ed.)
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Unity of Science (Paperback, 1977 ed.)
Series: Synthese Library, 109
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The first section of this chapter describes the major goals of this
investiga tion and the general strategy of my presentation. The
remaining three sections review some requisite background material
and introduce some terminology and notation used in the book.
Section B contains a brief review of some of the ideas and notation
of elementary logic and set theory. Section C contains an
introductory discussion of kinds and at tributes. Section D
presents some basic ideas about laws and law sentences. A. GENERAL
PLAN OF THE BOOK Basic scientific research is directed towards the
goals of increasing our knowledge of the wor1d and our
understanding of the wor1d. Knowledge increases through the
discovery and confirmation of facts and laws. Understanding results
from the explanation of known facts and laws, and through the
formulation of general, systematic theories. Other things being
equal, we tend to feeI that our understanding of a c1ass of
phenomena increases as we develop increasingly general and
intuitively unified theories of that c1ass of phenomena. It is
therefore natural to consider the possibility of one very general,
unified theory which, at least in principle, governs all known
phenomena. The dream of obtaining such a theory, and the
understanding that it would provide, has motivated an enormous
amount of research by both scientists and philosophers."
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