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143, 151n, 157, 160, 162, section
59, 163t, 164, 169, 170, 174–5,
178, 179, 180n, 182, 199t, 200,
294, 296n, 370–1, 372; of relative
frequencies or properties 140t–1,
176, 190n; of segments section
56, 152–4&n, 165; shortest 174n,
178n, 183n, 293n–4n, 295n,
370–3; of statements 4–5, 255,
257, 317, see also Reference
sequence; Segments; Selection
Similarity 200n, 440–4
Simplicity 58, 60, 92, 98n, chapter
VII, 121, 122, 128, 385, appendix
vii, 393–4, 397&n–400; as
content 395–6, 399; as
improbability 124, 125n, 127, 128,
395–400; mathematical 124–5;
methodological problem of
section 42, 122–6, 400; not
aesthetic or pragmatic section
41, 122, 123; as paucity of
parameters 116n, 126&n,
127–8&n, 266n, 273, 385, 393–4,
398, 399, 400; of probability
statements 200; as testability
section 43, 126–8, 266n, 269,
273, see also Parameters
Singular statements 3–4, 10, 19, 21,
37, 38, 41n, 42, 49n, 63, 64, 70n,
82–3n, 84, 92, 114, 118, 121, 314,
331, 443–4n; lawlike character of
76
Sociology 15; knowledge 26, 279n
Space see Coordinates
Stability see Statistical stability
Statements 12&n, 37, 69, 75, 78,
87n, 97n; distinction between
singular and universal 45–7;
distinction between synthetic
subject index 511
and empirical 29&n–31, 40,
104–5, 251, 261–3&n, 380, 383;
equations and functions 52–3t,
see also All-and-some
statements; Atomic statements;
Basic statements;
Contradictions; Demarcation
versus meaning; Empirical
character; Existential statements;
Metaphysical statements;
Metaphysics; Protocol
sentences; Singular statements;
Synthetic statements;
Tautologies
Statistical estimates, Statistical
hypotheses see Hypothesis
Statistical scatter relations 210,
220, 225–6, 226&n, 229, 233,
234, 302–3
Statistical stability 158–9, 170–1&n,
173, 175, 179–80, 180, see also
Fluctuations; Path; Pure case
Statistics see Probability; Relative
frequency
Stratagem see conventional
stratagem
Strictness, degree of 127t
Sub-systems see Independence
Subclass relation see Testability,
degree of
Support see corroboration,
ungraded
Surreptitious alteration 64
Symbolism, worship of 410
Symmetry 158, 159, 198; in
probability axioms, between the
two arguments 329–31, 333, 334,
336t, 352n; in quantum
theoretical formalism but not in
Heisenberg’s imaginary