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The great paradox of science: why its conclusions can be relied upon even though they cannot be proven
Science has revolutionized our lives and continues to show inexorable progress today. It may seem obvious that this must be because its theories are steadily getting better and approaching the truth about the world. After all, what could science be progressing toward, if not the truth? But scholarsh...
Autor principal: | Singham, Mano |
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Lenguaje: | eng |
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Oxford University Press
2020
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Acceso en línea: | http://cds.cern.ch/record/2708733 |
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