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Galileo and the Art of Reasoning: Rhetorical Foundation of Logic and Scientific Method - Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science M.A. Finocchiaro Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1980 edition
Galileo and the Art of Reasoning: Rhetorical Foundation of Logic and Scientific Method - Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science
M.A. Finocchiaro
The work of Galileo has long been important not only as a foundation of modern physics but also as a model - and perhaps the paradigmatic model - of scientific method, and therefore as a leading example of scientific rationality. Specifically, how and on what grounds are we to accept or reject scientific theories, or scientific reasoning?
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