Abandoned HypothesisOpen accessPhilosophy (General)

A Study of the Possibility of a Science Associated with a Specific Worldview

Mostafa Taqavi · 2019 · Journal of Philosophical Investigations

WASTE classifies this as Abandoned Hypothesis · AI classification, approximate

A hypothesis was tested and not supported — a dead end worth knowing about before you pursue it.

The finding, in one line

“First, we will show that some of the chief 20th-century theories of science either have failed to demonstrate that value judgments do not influence the context of consolidation and determination of science or have accepted the role of value judgments in the context of consolidation and determination of science and theorized accordingly.”

Abstract

There are two main sections in this paper. First, we will show that some of the chief 20th-century theories of science either have failed to demonstrate that value judgments do not influence the context of consolidation and determination of science or have accepted the role of value judgments in the context of consolidation and determination of science and theorized accordingly. For this purpose, the ideas of logical positivists, Willard Quine, Karl Popper, Thomas Kuhn, Imre Lakatos, Paul Feyerabend, and Roy Bhaskar on science are briefly reviewed. Finally, the validity of the following statem

Abstract by Mostafa Taqavi, Journal of Philosophical Investigations (2019) — licensed CC BY 4.0.

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