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456; essential 452; implicit 51–4;
intentional and estensional 157,
180, 182; operational 462&n;
ostensive 42, 53–4, 60, 117–19,
130; recursive 150n
Demarcation between science and
pseudoscience, as well as
between science and
metaphysics section 4, 11, 12,
14–15, 16, 34&n, 66, 78, 314–15;
certainty as, inadequate 14–15,
17–18, 19, 41, 49, 59–60, 78, 278,
280, 313–14; falsifiability as
section 6, 17–20, 28, 33, 48,
182–3, 190, 198, 265n, 266n,
314–16, 445–6; meaning as,
inadequate 12–15, 16–19, 309,
see also Asymmetry; Certainty;
Empirical character; estability;
Falsifiability; Meaning, positivist
dogma of; Verification
Demarcation versus meaning 12,
18n, 29n, 30–1, 40, 64n, 188&n,
249, 312–13, 413
Demonstrability 256t, 457n, see also
Tautology
Depth 446n, 452, 461
Description, Russell’s theory of
46n, 47n
Determinism, metaphysical 40,
199&n, 200–1&n, 210, 243–4,
246–7, 434, 484
Deviation, statistical 182, 184, 198,
see also Fluctuation
Dialectical method of resolving
contradictions 34n, see also
Methods, historical
Dimension 97–8, section 38,
114–18, 127, 128, appendix i,
283–4, appendix viii, 394–8; of
subject index 499
probability statements 127, 182;
reduction of, material and formal
117t–19, 128, 129, 393–4,
399–400, see also Decidability;
Field of application
Discovery 7–8, 15, 23, 28, 86,
89–90, 250; accidental, rare 90,
see also Falsification
Discussion, critical 14&n, 15, 22n,
28–9, 42, 59–60, 86, 199n, 253,
410–11, 464–7; critical xx
Disorder see Randomness
Dispositions, Dispositionals 76, 81,
444–5, 462, 463; degree of
444–5, 445, see also Lawlike
behaviour
Disproof, no conclusive disproof
can be produced 20, 28, 60–7
Distribution of probabilities 140–1t,
148, 150, 151, 152n, 153, 158, 159,
193, 200, 201, 202, 369–73, 388n,
429–30, 432n, see also
Equidistribution
Dogmatism 15, 28, 74–5, 78, 87,
see also Meaning, positivist
dogma of, its dogmatic character
Duality of wave and particle
presentations 215–16, 228–30,
297n, 299–300, 477n–80,
see also Complementarity
Duhm-Quine thesis see Systems
Economics 82
Effect, occult 23t, 24n, 63, 82&n,
195; reproducible 23, 24n, 67&n,
190n, 191, 195, 198, 256, see also
Lawlike behaviour; Observability;
Regularity
Elimination, method of 90–1,
115–16, 125n, 279n, 383n, 438, 442