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Methodology of the Empirical Sciences

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 March 2022

Alfred Morton Bork
Alfred Morton Bork*
Affiliation:
University of Alaska
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Abstract

The methodology of the empirical sciences is treated from a set-theoretical point of view. Starting from Tarski's formulation of the methodology of the deductive sciences, a relation between terms, called degree of centrality, is introduced. Epistemic correlation, and therefore the notion of interpretative system, is defined using this relation.

Type
Research Article
Information
Philosophy of Science , Volume 26 , Issue 1 , January 1959 , pp. 31 - 34
Copyright
Copyright © 1959 by Philosophy of Science Association

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