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What to make of Mendeleev’s predictions? / Wray, K. Brad.
I: Foundations of Chemistry: Philosophical, Historical, Educational and Interdisciplinary Studies of Chemistry, 2018.Publikation: Bidrag til tidsskrift/Konferencebidrag i tidsskrift /Bidrag til avis › Tidsskriftartikel › Forskning › peer review
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TY - JOUR
T1 - What to make of Mendeleev’s predictions?
AU - Wray, K. Brad
PY - 2018
Y1 - 2018
N2 - I critically examine Stewart’s (Found Chem, 2018) suggestion that we should weigh the various predictions Mendeleev made differently. I argue that in his effort to justify discounting the weight of some of Mendeleev’s failures, Stewart invokes a principle that will, in turn, reduce the weight of some of the successful predictions Mendeleev made. So Stewart’s strategy will not necessarily lead to a net gain in Mendeleev’s favor.
AB - I critically examine Stewart’s (Found Chem, 2018) suggestion that we should weigh the various predictions Mendeleev made differently. I argue that in his effort to justify discounting the weight of some of Mendeleev’s failures, Stewart invokes a principle that will, in turn, reduce the weight of some of the successful predictions Mendeleev made. So Stewart’s strategy will not necessarily lead to a net gain in Mendeleev’s favor.
KW - Mendeleev
KW - Periodic Table
KW - Prediction
U2 - 10.1007/s10698-018-9313-z
DO - 10.1007/s10698-018-9313-z
M3 - Journal article
JO - Foundations of Chemistry: Philosophical, Historical, Educational and Interdisciplinary Studies of Chemistry
JF - Foundations of Chemistry: Philosophical, Historical, Educational and Interdisciplinary Studies of Chemistry
SN - 1386-4238
M1 - https://doi.org/10.1007/s10698-018-9313-z
ER -