Abstract
THE first contribution to Organon attempts to analyse the ‘science’ of scientific investigations. We are reminded that the problems of science can be grouped according to different principles. Thus, they may be classified as being connected with the philosophy of science, with its psychology or with its sociology. Such groupings and others in which further subdivisions are made do not avoid overlapping but, according to Drs. M. and S. Ossowski, they do serve to indicate that there can be a ‘science of Science’. Against this view it can be urged that these problems already have their positions in well-defined fields (psychology, sociology, the theoretical parts of the separate sciences, etc.) but the Polish authors argue that the scope of this ‘science of Science’ comprises investigations concerning very widely separated subjects and brings them into internal harmony. The problems are attacked by many different means, but even here new links can be forged to bring the whole of science into one harmonious whole. The growth of science requires an extremely wide and many-sided supplementary apparatus, and the building of this apparatus requires theoretical studies.
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The Science of Science. Nature 138, 237 (1936). https://doi.org/10.1038/138237b0
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