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Data, Phenomena, Signal, and Noise

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2022

James Woodward
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Abstract

This essay attempts to provide additional motivation for the data/phenomena framework advocated in Bogen and Woodward, “Saving the Phenomena” (1988).

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Research Article
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Philosophy of Science , Volume 77 , Issue 5 , December 2010 , pp. 792 - 803
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Copyright © The Philosophy of Science Association

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Footnotes

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Thanks to fellow symposiasts Jim Bogen, Katherine Brading, James McAllister, and Paul Teller for helpful comments and discussion.

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