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Ian Hacking
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Book chapters
pp. x
Analytical table of contents
pp. xv
Preface
pp. 1
Introduction: Rationality
pp. 21
What is scientific realism?
pp. 32
Building and causing
pp. 41
Positivism
pp. 58
Pragmatism
pp. 65
Incommensurability
pp. 75
Reference
pp. 92
Internal realism
pp. 112
A surrogate for truth
pp. 129
Break: Reals and representations
pp. 149
Experiment
pp. 167
Observation
pp. 186
Microscopes
pp. 210
Speculation, calculation, models, approximations
pp. 220
The creation of phenomena
pp. 233
Measurement
pp. 246
Baconian topics
pp. 262
Experimentation and scientific realism
pp. 276
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