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Information is often said to be one of the aims of science. In a somewhat aphoristic form: science is an information seeking process. If this is true then the concept of information becomes of crucial importance for the methodology of science, because the use of a method in science would then have to be justified in terms of its efficiency in obtaining information.
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Szaniawski, K. (1976). Types of Information and their Role in the Methodology of Science. In: Przełęcki, M., Szaniawski, K., Wójcicki, R., Malinowski, G. (eds) Formal Methods in the Methodology of Empirical Sciences. Synthese Library, vol 103. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-1135-8_20
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