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THE NATURE OF SCIENTIFIC THEORY

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Natural History and Natural Philosophy
Second of four talks by Stephen Toulmin
Lecturer in the Philosophy of Science in the University of Oxford
The speaker argues that logicians and philosophers have too often thought of all the sciences as sophisticated kinds of natural history and so have obscured the role of theory in science.

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