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SLOGICA
2008
13 years 4 months ago
2008
Abstract. Scientific change has two important dimensions: conceptual change and structural change. In this paper, I argue that the existence of conceptual change brings serious dif...
SYNTHESE
2011
12 years 11 months ago
2011
: The aim of this paper is to revisit the phlogiston theory to see what can be learned from it about the relationship between scientific realism, approximate truth and successful r...
SYNTHESE
2011
12 years 11 months ago
2011
Are theories ‘underdetermined by the evidence’ in any way that should worry the scientific realist? I argue that no convincing reason has been given for thinking so. A crucial ...
SYNTHESE
2011
12 years 11 months ago
2011
: Both realists and instrumentalists have found it difficult to understand (much less accept) Carnap’s developed view on theoretical terms, which attempts to stake out a neutral ...
ICDE
2008
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
2008
IEEE
In this paper we explore database segmentation in the context of a column-store DBMS targeted at a scientific database. We present a novel hardware- and scheme-oblivious segmentati...