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| Topic: | Re:Re:How are mental operations observed? |
| Posted by: | Michael Lamport Commons |
| Date/Time: | 2010/8/5 23:15:00 |
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That is my view as well.?Thanks for the help standard conception of scientific explanation. His answer was comparable to Ernest Nagel's The Structure of Science (Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1961) in that any scientific observation requires [i] a formal model, [ii] an empirical model, [iii] correspondence rules that link observations to [i] and ii]. Nagel's account was offered as an account of scientific explanation in physics; for a summary, see?my Necessary Knowledge (1993, p. 100ff) |