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Wrong for the Right Reasons

By Allan , Buchwald , Jed Z. & Franklin

Book information

Publisher
Springer
Year
2006
ISBN
9781402030482
Google Books ID
xCMhVraUAnMC
Language
eng
Format
PDF
Filesize
12 MB (12485049 bytes)
Volume
1.0
Pages
\231
Time added
2024-05-25 16:31:29
generalHistoryPhilosophy & Social AspectsScience

Description

The rapidity with which knowledge changes makes much of past science obsolete, and often just wrong, from the present's point of view. We no longer think, for example, that heat is a material substance transferred from hot to cold bodies. But is wrong science always or even usually bad science? The essays in this volume argue by example that much of the past's rejected science, wrong in retrospect though it may be - and sometimes markedly so - was nevertheless sound and exemplary of enduring standards that transcend the particularities of culture and locale.

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