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Modern experimentation is often like driving an automobile. The details and theory of the instruments being used in the experiment are not known to the experimenter except in a very general way. (...) Experimenters are taught in an explicit way, often, how to write up reports of their experiments. But the tradition here is like sports reporting. Only the results of the experiment are reported in any serious detail. The procedures are not.

Patrick Suppes

Patrick Suppes

Patrick Suppes

Born: March 17, 1922

Died: November 17, 2014 (aged 92)

Bio: Patrick Colonel Suppes was an American philosopher who made significant contributions to philosophy of science, the theory of measurement, the foundations of quantum mechanics, decision theory, psychology and educational technology.

Known for:

Axiomatic set theory (1972)
Introduction to logic (1957)
First Course in Mathematical Logic (1964)

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