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| Note on Translation | |
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| Chronology | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Keeping the Fixed Points Fixed | |
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| Narrative: What to Do When Water Refuses to Boil at the Boiling Point | |
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| Blood, Butter, and Deep Cellars: The Necessity and Scarcity of Fixed Points | |
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| The Vexatious Variations of the Boiling Point | |
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| Superheating and the Mirage of True Ebullition | |
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| Escape from Superheating | |
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| The Understanding of Boiling | |
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| A Dusty Epilogue | |
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| Analysis: The Meaning and Achievement of Fixity | |
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| The Validation of Standards: Justificatory Descent | |
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| The Iterative Improvement of Standards: Constructive Ascent | |
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| The Defense of Fixity: Plausible Denial and Serendipitous Robustness | |
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| The Case of the Freezing Point | |
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| Spirit, Air, and Quicksilver | |
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| Narrative: The Search for the "Real" Scale of Temperature | |
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| The Problem of Nomic Measurement | |
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| De Luc and the Method of Mixtures | |
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| Caloric Theories against the Method of Mixtures | |
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| The Calorist Mirage of Gaseous Linearity | |
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| Regnault: Austerity and Comparability | |
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| The Verdict: Air over Mercury | |
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| Analysis: Measurement and Theory in the Context of Empiricism | |
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| The Achievement of Observability, by Stages | |
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| Comparability and the Ontological Principle of Single Value | |
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| Minimalism against Duhemian Holism | |
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| Regnault and Post-Laplacian Empiricism | |
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| To Go Beyond | |
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| Narrative: Measuring Temperature When Thermometers Melt and Freeze | |
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| Can Mercury Be Frozen? | |
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| Can Mercury Tell Us Its Own Freezing Point? | |
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| Consolidating the Freezing Point of Mercury | |
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| Adventures of a Scientific Potter | |
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| It Is Temperature, but Not As We Know It? | |
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| Ganging Up on Wedgwood | |
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| Analysis: The Extension of Concepts beyond Their Birth Domains | |
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| Travel Advisory from Percy Bridgman | |
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| Beyond Bridgman: Meaning, Definition, and Validity | |
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| Strategies for Metrological Extension | |
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| Mutual Grounding as a Growth Strategy | |
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| Theory, Measurement, and Absolute Temperature | |
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| Narrative: The Quest for the Theoretical Meaning of Temperature | |
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| Temperature, Heat, and Cold | |
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| Theoretical Temperature before Thermodynamics | |
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| William Thomson's Move to the Abstract | |
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| Thomson's Second Absolute Temperature | |
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| Semi-Concrete Models of the Cannot Cycle | |
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| Using Gas Thermometers to Approximate Absolute Temperature | |
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| Analysis: Operationalization-Making Contact between Thinking and Doing | |
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| The Hidden Difficulties of Reduction | |
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| Dealing with Abstractions | |
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| Operationalization and Its Validity | |
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| Accuracy through Iteration | |
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| Theoretical Temperature without Thermodynamics? | |
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| Measurement, Justification, and Scientific Progress | |
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| Measurement, Circularity, and Coherentism | |
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| Making Coherentism Progressive: Epistemic Iteration | |
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| Fruits of Iteration: Enrichment and Self-Correction | |
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| Tradition, Progress, and Pluralism | |
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| The Abstract and the Concrete | |
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| Complementary Science-History and Philosophy of Science as a Continuation of Science by Other Means | |
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| The Complementary Function of History and Philosophy of Science | |
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| Philosophy, History, and Their Interaction in Complementary Science | |
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| The Character of Knowledge Generated by Complementary Science | |
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| Relations to Other Modes of Historical and Philosophical Study of Science | |
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| A Continuation of Science by Other Means | |
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| Glossary of Scientific, Historical, and Philosophical Terms | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Index | |