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2 unusual facts about Norwood Russell Hanson


Abductive reasoning

Norwood Russell Hanson, a philosopher of science, wanted to grasp a logic explaining how scientific discoveries take place.

Jerry Fodor on mental architecture

Thomas Kuhn (1962), Norwood Russell Hanson (1958) and Nelson Goodman (1968), for example, maintain that the perception of the world depends on how the percipient conceives the world: two individuals (two scientists) who witness the same phenomenon and are steeped in two radically different theories will see two radically different things.



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