
Publication details
Publisher: Springer
Place: Berlin
Year: 1979
Pages: 19-40
Series: Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science
ISBN (Hardback): 9789027709950
Full citation:
, "Some issues regarding the completeness of science and the limits of scientific knowledge", in: The structure and development of science, Berlin, Springer, 1979


Some issues regarding the completeness of science and the limits of scientific knowledge
pp. 19-40
in: Gérard Radnitzky, Gunnar Andersson (eds), The structure and development of science, Berlin, Springer, 1979Abstract
The incompleteness of knowledge is a familiar conception, but nevertheless deserves closer scrutiny. A body of knowledge is incomplete when it is defective in point of comprehensiveness, self-sufficiency, and scope. In such a case, the body will have gaps, omissions, or such-like deficiencies in the inclusiveness of its "coverage". The whole is then lacking in mutual support — like a broken statue with missing pieces. Some parts of it will demand the operation of elements that are simply lacking, there is a collective inadequacy to the common task.
Publication details
Publisher: Springer
Place: Berlin
Year: 1979
Pages: 19-40
Series: Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science
ISBN (Hardback): 9789027709950
Full citation:
, "Some issues regarding the completeness of science and the limits of scientific knowledge", in: The structure and development of science, Berlin, Springer, 1979