Philosophy Of Science

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2 domain-specific abstractions whose origin domain is Philosophy Of Science.

• Homeostatic property cluster theory — A theory of natural kinds in which overlapping property clusters are sustained by causal mechanisms without every member sharing one defining essence.
• Logical positivism — A twentieth-century empiricist movement that joined formal logic to scientific philosophy and treated empirical verifiability or analytic truth as the criterion of cognitive meaning, while revising that program under sustained internal criticism.