@inbook{c899bf7950604a9b8e6f84aa0e48d327,
title = "Empirical Foundations",
abstract = "All scientific knowledge must be based on observation. This is the basis of scientific method, but there is some ambiguity in how close a link is required between observation and theory. The method cannot be simply a process of generalizing knowledge from observations, since some, at least tentative, knowledge is prerequisite for making scientific observations.",
keywords = "Induction, Observation, Theory",
author = "Peter Kosso",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2011, Peter Kosso.",
year = "2011",
doi = "10.1007/978-94-007-1614-8_2",
language = "English (US)",
series = "SpringerBriefs in Philosophy",
publisher = "Springer Science and Business Media B.V.",
pages = "7--11",
booktitle = "SpringerBriefs in Philosophy",
}