Methodological Aspects Concerning Relations between Scientific Theories and Experience

  • Zygmunt Hajduk The John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, Faculty of Philosophy
Keywords: experience; observation; comparability; relations between theory and experience; scientific theory

Abstract

The paper is divided in several parts, entitled as follows: introduction; the standard view, its char-acteristic; constructive challenge of the received standpoint; attempted resolutions of the problem of comparability; how do work visual perceptions in scientific observations? meaning variance of scien-tific terms; an attempt to construe the ground for comparability – concluding remarks.

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