‎DUHEM (P.)‎
‎La théorie physique, son objet, sa structure -- BEL EXEMPLAIRE‎

‎P., Rivière, 1914, un volume in 8, broché, couverture imprimée, 8pp., 514pp.‎

Reference : 1860

‎---- BEL EXEMPLAIRE ---- Seconde édition REVUE ET AUGMENTEE ---- "DUHEM published his major philosophical work, la théorie physique, son objet et sa structure in 1906, after having largely completed his researches in physical science. A physical theory , he held there, is a system of mathematical propositions, deduced from a small number of principles, which has the object of representing a set of experimental laws as simply, as completely and as exactly as possible. In adopting this position, he was explicitly rejecting what he considered to be the two alternatives to which any serious existing or previous account might be reduced . (DSB IV pp. 225/233)**1860/K5‎