This strategy aims to explain the strength, coherence and continuity of science in terms of local coordinations of intercalated levels of symbolic procedures and meanings, instruments and arguments.
The fact that the English physicist can accept disparate models, breaking up the historical continuity of science and even its present unification, is what shocks Duhem; it is what reconfirms for him that English physics is not the work of reason, but the work of imagination.
The pragmatic theory of truth, beginning with Charles Peirce, had emphasized its continuity with the methodology of science.
This latter branch of the philosophy of technology seeks continuity with the philosophy of science and with several other fields in the analytic tradition in modern philosophy, such as the philosophy of action and decision-making, rather than with social science and the humanities.
As early as 1916, Antonio Favaro, the editor of Le Opere di Galileo Galilei, rejected the continuity of medieval and early modern science.
Unfortunately, most of the resources for these measurements are from research funding streams, and as priorities for innovative science change, so the continuity of critical sustained measurements is continually under threat.
Especially in the sciences, the continuity of the prizes is emphasized when the work of one laureate builds upon that of an earlier laureate, creating "a sort of apostolic succession," said Michael Sohlman, executive director of the Nobel Foundation.
By contrast to social studies of science, philosophers in this tradition stand in continuity with traditional epistemology, and make no attempt at debunking science's epistemic authority on the basis of social considerations.
Les origines de la statique is thus a transition from Duhem's early conventional histories to the later work for which he is best known, Etudes sur Léonard de Vinci, and Le Système du monde, in which his thesis of the continuity of late medieval and early modern science is fully displayed.
Peirce held that the continuity of space, time, ideation, feeling, and perception is an irreducible deliverance of science, and that an adequate conception of such continua is an extremely important part of all the sciences.
That the principle of continuity serves this function for mathematical natural science is, for Cohen, a fact of science revealed by his historical investigation of the development of calculus.
