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Ever since Hume, empiricists have bared powers and capacities from nature. Cartwright here argues that capacities are essential to our scientific world and, contrary to empiricist orthodoxy, that they can meet sufficiently strict demands for testability.

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    • Title: Nature's Capacities and Their Measurement by Nancy Cartwright
    • Publisher: Oxford University Press Academic UK
    • Print ISBN: 9780198235071, 0198235070
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    • Edition: 1994 Revised edition
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