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In 1935 Otto Neurath penned these comments in his paper “Unity of science as a task”.
We do not arrive at ‘one’ system of science that could take the place of the ‘real world’ so to speak; everything remains ambiguous and in many ways uncertain.1
Otto Neurath
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Steed, S., Contessa, G., Cartwright, N. (2011). Keeping Track of Neurath’s Bill: Abstract Concepts, Stock Models and the Unity of Classical Physics. In: Symons, J., Pombo, O., Torres, J. (eds) Otto Neurath and the Unity of Science. Logic, Epistemology, and the Unity of Science, vol 18. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-0143-4_8
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