On the eliminative explanation of social theories (Q795821)

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scientific article; zbMATH DE number 3863166
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On the eliminative explanation of social theories
scientific article; zbMATH DE number 3863166

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    On the eliminative explanation of social theories (English)
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    1983
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    The paper discusses eliminative explanation in which a (social) successor theory correctively explains and, as a consequence, eliminates its predecessor theory. Technical concepts and results from general logic are applied to the explication of corrective explanation, especially to the notion of framework translation that it involves.
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    social theories
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    philosophy of science
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    eliminative explanation
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    successor theory
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    predecessor theory
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    explication of corrective explanation
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    framework translation
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