Measuring and reasoning : numerical inference in the sciences /
"In Reasoning and Measuring, Fred L. Bookstein examines the way ordinary arithmetic and numerical patterns are translated into scientific understanding, showing how the process relies on two carefully managed forms of argument: * Abduction: the generation of new hypotheses to accord with findin...
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New York, NY :
Cambridge University Press,
2014.
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