First edition. 8vo. xii, 376 pp. Original blue cloth, spine lettered and ruled in gilt, dust jacket (internally clean and unmarked; jaacket price clipped, spine panel faintly toned, small closed tear and 1cm portion of loss to foot of rear joint, notwithstanding a very good copy overall). Cambridge, At the University Press, 1953.
The principal work by the Cambridge philosopher of science Richard Bevan Braithwaite (1900-1990) in which he aims ‘to examine the logical features common to all the sciences’; that is, to discuss the role of theories of probability, inference, induction, and causality, with an aim of establishing exactly what is meant by explanation in science.
