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What is meant by explanation?; scientific explanation; historical explanation; technological explanation; engineering, technology and engineering science.
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T. Kuhn, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (Chicago, 1962).
See B. Magee, Popper (Fontana/Collins, 1973).
Ernst Cassirer, Essay on Man (Yale U.P., 1944)
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Rogers, G.F.C. (1983). Scientific and Technological Explanation. In: The Nature of Engineering. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-06683-4_3
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