Scientific Explanation. A Study of the Function of Theory, Probability and Law in Science. Based upon the Tarner Lectures, 1946.

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The principal work by the Cambridge philosopher of science Richard Bevan Braithwaite (1900-1990) in which he aims ‘to examine the logical features common to all the sciences’; that is, to discuss the role of theories of probability, inference, induction, and causality, with an aim of establishing exactly what is meant by explanation in science.

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