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- Title
Explanatory Identities and Conceptual Change.
- Authors
Thagard, Paul
- Abstract
Although mind-brain identity remains controversial, many other identities of ordinary things with scientific ones are well established. For example, air is a mixture of gases, water is HO, and fire is rapid oxidation. This paper examines the history of 15 important identifications: air, blood, cloud, earth, electricity, fire, gold, heat, light, lightning, magnetism, salt, star, thunder, and water. This examination yields surprising conclusions about the nature of justification, explanation, and conceptual change.
- Subjects
SCIENCE education; JUSTIFICATION (Theory of knowledge); EXPLANATION; THEORY of knowledge; AIR; EARTH (Planet); FIRE; WATER
- Publication
Science & Education, 2014, Vol 23, Issue 7, p1531
- ISSN
0926-7220
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s11191-014-9682-1