Contextual empiricism

Contextual empiricism

Contextual empiricism is a theory about validating scientific knowledge. It is the view that scientific knowledge is shaped by contextual values as well as constitutive ones.[1]

See also

References

  1. ^ Janet Kourany, Scientific Knowledge



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