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Some Issues in the Philosophy of Science
11.1 Scientific Change and Scientific Revolutions
The present generation of youth may not be able even to imagine a world without electricity, not to mention cell phones and television. Yet it is a fact that all these reached the common people, only within the last generation. One can say that these are but technologies; science is different. Yes, but even in the field of science, the sheer volume of information explosion is mind boggling. Even if we confine our attention to the breakthroughs achieved in real knowledge generation, the rate of progress is tremendous indeed. For example, most of the valid information we have about the outer reaches of the universe, were obtained during the last fifty ...
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