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Bas van Fraasseen was born on April 5, 1941 in Goes, Netherlands and is currently still alive at the age of 77 years old.
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Bas van Fraassen was born during the time the Germans occupied the Netherlands, his father was forced by the Nazis to work in Hamburg. After the war his family emigrated to Edmonton, Canada.
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Bachelors degree: 1963 University of Alberta
Masters degree: 1964 University of Pittsburgh
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Coined the term Constructive Empiricism in his book The Scientific Image, published in 1980.
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He attempted to lay the ground work for explaining physical phenomena without assuming that such phenomena are caused by the laws and rules by which can be said to cause or govern their behaviors.
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"Bas Van Fraassen." Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, Inc., www.britannica.com/biography/Bas-van-Fraassen. "Bas Van Fraasseen." Department of Philosophy, philosophy.sfsu.edu/people/faculty/bas-van-fraassen. Fraassen, Bas C van. "Bas C. Van Fraassen." Princeton University, The Trustees of Princeton University, www. princeton.edu/~fraassen/.
