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How to Put Questions to Nature

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 January 2010

Matti Sintonen
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In this paper I propose to examine, and in part revive, a time-honoured perspective to inquiry in general and scientific explanation in particular. The perspective is to view inquiry as a search for answers to questions. If there is anything that deserves to be called a working scientist's view of his or her daily work, it surely is that he or she phrases questions and attempts to find satisfactory answers to them.

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Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplements , Volume 27 , March 1990 , pp. 267 - 284
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Copyright © The Royal Institute of Philosophy and the contributors 1990

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