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1 de oct. de 2002 · The thesis that science is progressive is an overall claim about scientific activities. It does not imply that each particular step in science has in fact been progressive: individual scientists make mistakes, and even the scientific community is fallible in its collective judgments.
19 de dic. de 2015 · For historical models of theory change fail to portray scientific progress as an increase in knowledge about a common domain of entities to which earlier theories referred, and about which later theories provide more extensive knowledge.
Scientific change received new interest during the 1980s and 1990s with the emergence of cognitive science; a field that draws on cognitive psychology, cognitive anthropology, linguistics, philosophy, artificial intelligence and neuroscience.
19 de abr. de 2013 · Abstract. Like mammalian neurons, Caenorhabditis elegans neurons lose axon regeneration ability as they age, but it is not known why. Here, we report that let-7 contributes to a developmental decline in anterior ventral microtubule (AVM) axon regeneration.
1 de feb. de 2023 · The by-whom conception of scientific progress. As detailed in the previous section, any account of scientific progress — implicitly understood to be restricted to cognitive progress in science — will identify it with changes in the actual or potential cognitive states of some agents.
Definition. Science is systematized positive knowledge, or what has been taken as such at different ages and in different places. Theorem. The acquisition and systematization of positive knowledge are the only human activities which are truly cumulative and progressive. Corollary.
Making novel assumptions is associated with progressive change when the novel assumptions make the theory more general (it applies to a larger set of domains, that is, scope expansion) or increases the causal grain of the theory (it becomes more accurate in terms of explanation and
