
Publication details
Publisher: Springer
Place: Berlin
Year: 1995
Pages: 3-14
Series: Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science
ISBN (Hardback): 9789401042116
Full citation:
, "Universals as tyrants and as mediators", in: Critical rationalism, metaphysics and science, Berlin, Springer, 1995


Universals as tyrants and as mediators
pp. 3-14
in: I. C. Jarvie, Nathaniel Laor (eds), Critical rationalism, metaphysics and science, Berlin, Springer, 1995Abstract
As science advances, particular facts are comprehended within, and therefore in a sense annihilated by, general statements of steadily increasing explanatory power and compass whereupon the facts need no longer be known explicitly. In all sciences we are being progressively relieved of the burden of singular instances, the tyranny of the particular. (The Art of the Soluble, London 1967, 114.)
Publication details
Publisher: Springer
Place: Berlin
Year: 1995
Pages: 3-14
Series: Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science
ISBN (Hardback): 9789401042116
Full citation:
, "Universals as tyrants and as mediators", in: Critical rationalism, metaphysics and science, Berlin, Springer, 1995