The observational-inductive framework for science

AIP Conference Proceedings

Volumn 822, Issue , 2006, Pages 166-170

  Eastman, Timothy E ^a  

^a Plasmas International   (United States)

Author keywords

Cosmology; Data mining; Data driven method; eScience; Falsification; Grid systems; Hypothetical deductive; Induction; KDD; Knowledge discovery; Methodology; Observational tests; Philosophy of science; Theory dependence; Virtual observatory

Indexed keywords

EID: 33751208330     PISSN: 0094243X     EISSN: 15517616     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2189133     Document Type: Conference Paper

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