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Carl G. Hempel
Researcher at Princeton University
Publications - 103
Citations - 12166
Carl G. Hempel is an academic researcher from Princeton University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Philosophy of science & Ontology (information science). The author has an hindex of 31, co-authored 103 publications receiving 11763 citations. Previous affiliations of Carl G. Hempel include Queens College & University of Pittsburgh.
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Studies in the Logic of Explanation
Carl G. Hempel,Paul Oppenheim +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, an elementary survey of the basic pattern of scientific explanation and a subsequent more rigorous analysis of the concept of law and of the logical structure of explanatory arguments are presented.
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Philosophy of Natural Science
TL;DR: Hempel as mentioned in this paper argued that crucial tests are not sufficient enough to prove or disprove a given hypothesis or to disprove them, and presented his side of this argument using an example of past experiments involving the nature of light.
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The Function of General Laws in History
TL;DR: In this paper it is shown that general laws have quite analogous functions in history and in the natural sciences, that they form an indispensable instrument of historical research, and that they even constitute the common basis of various procedures which are often considered as characteristic of the social sciences.