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and ad hoc hypothesis 238–93n,
468, 469–70; orthodox
interpretation of 209, 210–11,
212–16, 216–17, 217–18, 218&n,
224, 226, 232–3, 242, 297–300,
301n–2n, 303, 467&n, 468, 470,
473–6, 482–3; positivist
character of 213–14&n, 227–8,
245, 246, 301n–2n, 303, 473–6,
482–3; propensity interpretation
of 220n, 222n, 229n;
Schrödinger’s tentative
interpretation of 230; statistical
interpretation of 209, 210–11,
218–19, 220–3, 224–6, 230–1,
232–3, 242, 475&n, see also
Heisenberg’s programme;
Imaginary experiment; Meaning,
positivist dogma of, its dogmatic
character; Positivism; Statistical
scatter relations
Heisenberg’s programme section
73, 211–16, 223, 226–7, 245–6&n,
476
Heuristics 116, 325–8, 465–6
History 279n; of philosophy 317; of
science 267, 316, see also
Methods, historical
Hypothesis, Hypothetical character
of scientific statements 3, 4, 6, 51,
53, 53–4, 56, 129, 219n, 227–8,
244, 249–53, 264, 271–2, 278–81,
317–18, 380n, 414–15, 416, 434,
444–5, 454; ad hoc 20, 50, 59–61,
131, 272n, 379; auxiliary 20, 63,
131, 273; decidability of see
Decidability;; existential 185t–8;
falsifying low level 54, 67t&n, 94;
statistical, statistical estimate of
frequency, or statistical
extrapolation section 57, 154n,
157–9&n, 169, 171n, 175, 177,
183–6, 196–200, 201, 202, 205,
244, 259, 293, 379, 400n, 427,
430–1, 434; universal-existential
185t&n, see also Certainty;
Corroboration; Distribution;
Equidistribution; Probability
logic; Testability; Verification
Idealization, its critical use 466–7,
469–70
Idempotence 331–2, 357–9
Imaginary experiments appendix xi,
464, 465–7; author’s 210, 227–8,
section 77, 232–42, 304,
appendix vii, 305–8, 475; Bohm’s
470–3; Bohr’s 238, appendix v,
297–300, 467–8, 470, 477–80;
Carnot’s 465–6; of Einstein and
Pauli 471–3; of Einstein, Podolski
and Rosen 216n, 219n–20n, 467,
468–9, 470, 472, appendix xii,
483; Einstein’s 465–6, 470;
Galileo’s 464&n–5; Heisenberg’s
224–6, 238, 466, 472–4, 475, 477;
invalidity of 216n, 228n, 232n,
238n, 301n–2n, 467n, 475, 481–3;
replaceable by that of Einstein,
Podolski and Rosen 232n
Imagination xvii, see also Boldness;
Content; Intuition
Implication or conditional 41&n,
46&n, 104n, 459–60;
counterfactual, so-called
455t&n–6n, 460, 462; material
56n, 71n; modal or strict 455, 461,
462; necessary or subjunctive, or
nomic 455t&n–6n, 456–7, 461,
462, 463, see also Necessity