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The present part of the enquiry into knowing and science will examine the place of logic and psychology in accounting for the scientific activity, as it has appeared in the writings from several authors. Issues of logic and paradigms will be examined as they appear in studies by Popper and Kuhn. True statements in science will be studied according to some remarks by Quine. The psychology of science will be considered on the background of William James’s description of knowing, as it has been treated later by the mathematicians Poincaré and Hadamard and by the sociologist Roe.
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Naur, P. (1995). Logic and Psychology of the Scientific Activity. In: Knowing and the Mystique of Logic and Rules. Studies in Cognitive Systems, vol 18. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-8549-1_18
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