Scientific representation : paradoxes of perspective / Bas C. van Fraassen.
Scientific representation : paradoxes of perspective / Bas C. van Fraassen.
Scientific representation : paradoxes of perspective / Bas C. van Fraassen.
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Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008.
Date
2008.
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N501/400
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English
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xiv, 408 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Contents
Representation of, representation as -- Imaging, picturing, and scaling -- Pictorial perspective and the indexical -- A window on the invisible world (?) -- The problem of coordination -- Measurement as representation: 1. The physical correlate -- Measurement as representation: 2. Information -- Fro...
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Publisher
Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008.
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England
Date Published
2008.
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- Philosophy
- Science
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Scientific representation : paradoxes of perspective / Bas C. van Fraassen.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [322]-344) and index.
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N501/400
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0199278229 (hbk. : alk. paper)
9780199278220 (hbk. : alk. paper)
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501
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991008948729702626
