Data, Phenomena, Signal, and Noise

Philosophy of Science 77 (5):792-803 (2010)
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This essay attempts to provide additional motivation for the data/phenomena framework advocated in Bogen and Woodward, “Saving the Phenomena”.

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10.1086/656554

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Saving the phenomena.James Bogen & James Woodward - 1988 - Philosophical Review 97 (3):303-352.
Data and phenomena.James Woodward - 1989 - Synthese 79 (3):393 - 472.
Data, phenomena, and reliability.James Woodward - 2000 - Philosophy of Science 67 (3):179.

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