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The Structure of Science: Problems in the Logic of Scientific Explanation by Ernest Nagel
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“It is the desire for explanations that are at once systematic and controllable by factual evidence that generates science; and it is the organization and classification of knowledge on the basis of explanatory principles that is the distinctive goal of the sciences.”
― Ernest Nagel, The Structure of Science: Problems in the Logic of Scientific Explanation

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