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Birth
Bastiaan Cornelius Van Fraassen was born in German occupied Netherlands during Spring 1941 of World War II. His father was a pipeman and was forced to labor for the German Armies until the family was reunified and migrated to Canada in 1956. -
Bachelor of Arts
University of Alberta -
Master of Arts
University of Pittsburgh -
Doctor of Philosophy
University of Pittsburgh -
(Dissertation) Foundations of the Causal Theory of Time
Van Fraasen's research of a language which both Causal and Relational Theories of Time are created and written. Van Fraasen studies the ideas behind X Events in comparison to the rest of our structured timeline and more. "Indeed, if certain primitive relational terms are used to define temporal relations, then it follows ipso facto that the primitive terms in question will have logical equivalents in which temporal expressions occur." Probook 1966 - Foundations of the Causal Theory of Time -
Questions and Answers
Development of Bas C Van Fraasen's conceptual idea of a direct answer, codes, and more as they pertain to propositions and logical questioning. Q=(Pk, X, R) "2.2 Pg 141" (Theories of Explanation, edited by Joseph C. Pitt, Oxford University Press USA - OSO, 1988. ProQuest Ebook Central, http://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/apus/detail.action?docID=273275.) -
The Scientific Image
Constructive Empiricism -
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Constructive Empiricism and the Lakatos Award
"...the constructive empiricist holds that science aims at truth about observable aspects of the world, but that science does not aim at truth about unobservable aspects. Acceptance of a theory, according to constructive empiricism, correspondingly differs from acceptance of a theory on the scientific realist view: the constructive empiricist holds that as far as belief is concerned, acceptance of a scientific theory involves only the belief that the theory is empirically adequate."