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  1. (1 other version)Experience and Prediction: An Analysis of the Foundations and the Structure of Knowledge.Hans Reichenbach - 1938 - Chicago, IL, USA: University of Chicago Press.
    First published in 1949 expressly to introduce logical positivism to English speakers. Reichenbach, with Rudolph Carnap, founded logical positivism, a form of epistemofogy that privileged scientific over metaphysical truths.
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  • Die biologie AlS autonome wissenschaft. II.Karl Sapper - 1936 - Acta Biotheoretica 2 (1):12-18.
    Finality, the characteristic sign of vital processes, implies no opposition to causality; on the contrary the causal method of thinking must be applied to living nature. We must, however, distinguish between a final causality, one directed towards reaching a specific goal, and a causality which works mechanically without reference to a goal.A final or teleological treatment is applicable to inanimate nature as well, and is by many philosophers and physicists so applied. This teleology is however merely the inverse of causality. (...)
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  • Strenge objekt/subjekt-scheidung als vorausfetzung wiffenfchaftlicher biologie.Walter Zimmermann - 1937 - Erkenntnis 7 (1):1-44.
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