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As it is well known, there are two basic ways of understanding the term ‘science’ in epistemology. On the one hand, the concept is used to refer to a system of investigative activities; on the other, it is referred to a set of assumptions of scientific research and to its results expressed in sentences. To avoid a possible misunderstanding occasioned by this ambiguity, in the first instance I will use the phrase ‘research (or scientific) practice’, in the second, I will use the term ‘science’.
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Kmita, J. (1991). The Controversy about the Determinants of the Growth of Science. In: Essays on the Theory of Scientific Cognition. Synthese Library, vol 210. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-0473-6_4
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