Non-uniqueness in Geoscientific Inference

Pramod S. Moharir

626 pages, parution le 01/11/2004

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Résumé

Scientific inference aims to understand the external world and the influence of our actions on it, and arises as an interaction of hypothesis, observation and inferential procedures. Of these, only the observations originate in the external world, although even they are the perceptions of the observer.

Nonuniqueness poses a great problem to objective scientific inference; this book discusses the causes of nonuniqueness and suggests that they are not entirely removable. It argues that truth is not manifest and that progress in science is not sequential but is achieved by tentative theorization and systematic error elimination.

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Introduction
Theories of science
Discipline of geology
Extra-scientific considerations
Representational problems
Observation and Experiment
Desiderata
Methods of optimisation
Time, future and history
Paradoxes
Signal processing paradoxes
Influence of opinions
Some case studies
Some modern concepts
Conclusions and corollaries

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Éditeur(s)	Research Studies Press
Auteur(s)	Pramod S. Moharir
Parution	01/11/2004
Nb. de pages	626
Format	15,5 x 24
Couverture	Relié
Poids	1145g
Intérieur	Noir et Blanc
EAN13	9780863802171
ISBN13	978-0-86380-217-1