Opening the Door to Cloud-Cuckoo-Land: Hempel and Kuhn on Rationality
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Opening the Door to Cloud-Cuckoo-Land: Hempel and Kuhn on Rationality A reading is offered of Carl Hempel's and Thomas Kuhn's positions on, and disagreements about, rationality in science that relates these issues to the debate between W.V. Quine and Rudolf Carnap on the analytic/synthetic distinction.
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