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The Logic of Scientific Discovery
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Logik der Forschung first published
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CONTENTS Translators’ Note xii Pr
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contents ix 7 37 Logical Ranges. No
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iii Derivation of the First Form of
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have, after all, allowed psychologi
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the problem of the empirical basis
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the problem of the empirical basis
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the problem of the empirical basis
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the problem of the empirical basis
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6 DEGREES OF TESTABILITY Theories m
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33 DEGREES OF FALSIFIABILITY COMPAR
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degrees of testability 101 testabil
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versa. The better testable statemen
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of degrees of falsifiability to a l
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degrees of testability 107 statemen
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degrees of testability 109 demand t
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successful in guiding our choice be
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degrees of testability 113 would im
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a simple theorem of the theory of d
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zero dimensional classes 1 one dime
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degrees of testability 119 common,
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7 SIMPLICITY There seems to be litt
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simplicity 123 for one, gives a neg
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simplicity 125 criticism. It will a
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I have already shown that theories
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particularly simple; but a law whic
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experience; a point with which I ag
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8 PROBABILITY In this chapter I sha
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y mixing water and alcohol’, illu
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probability 137 probability stateme
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of the theory in its present form.
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if sequences of penny tosses showed
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modified, namely, so as to demand n
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How this is to be understood will b
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54 FINITE SEQUENCES. ORDINAL SELECT
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Since every element of α has eithe
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construct other sequences, again wi
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probability 153 begin with the segm
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probability 155 called a ‘referen
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probability 157 which the correspon
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questions about the origins or ‘s
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probability 161 example of a collec
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distances of the elements from an a
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probability 165 binomial formula (3
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probability 167 segment 0,0, anothe
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segments possessing the property
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probability 171 only slightly from
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63 BERNOULLI’S THEOREM AND THE PR
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probability 175 behaviour which I h
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probability 177 conversely: if it h
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probability 179 (2) Requirement of
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of the calculus of probability. Wit
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probability 183 upon my criterion o
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probability 185 property ‘1’, a
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probability 187 the uniqueness of p
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probability 189 interpreted as ‘m
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probability 191 probability, the ph
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probability 193 as molecular collis
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probability 195 magnitude of ε cha
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probability 197 But this answer rai
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probability 199 events are, or are
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probability 201 at times may indeed
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probability 203 class of occurrence
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probability 205 express all we know
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tion I regard the practicability of
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9 SOME OBSERVATIONS ON QUANTUM THEO
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some observations on quantum theory
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affected, for example by irradiatio
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some observations on quantum theory
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outside it. Schrödinger later show
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mechanics. On this view, the theory
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some observations on quantum theory
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78 INDETERMINIST METAPHYSICS some o
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APPENDIX i Definition of the Dimens
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appendix i 285 relatively atomic st
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(1,1) N(α.β.γ) N(α) N(α.β) N(
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APPENDIX iv A Method of Constructin
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APPENDIX v Examination of an Object
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appendix v 299 (c) In a similar way
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APPENDIX vi Concerning a Non-Predic
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APPENDIX vii Remarks Concerning an
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NOTE TO NEW APPENDICES, 1959 EDITIO
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new appendices 311 Yet I had not on
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views were discussed, by the Circle
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appendix *i 315 statement turns out
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APPENDIX *ii A Note on Probability,
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A3 A4 B1 B2 B3 There are at least o
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‘p(2) + p(4)’ we can write, mor
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APPENDIX *iv The Formal Theory of P
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interpretation according to which a
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p(x) = p(x). Thus the derivability
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where e is evidence in favour of th
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A1 There are elements c and d in S
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A3 is needed to prove that p(a, a)
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(E) There are elements a, b, and c
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Now we can define, p(a, b) = lim q(
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appendix *iv 347 if we consider tha
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A3 B1 B2 C p(a, a) = p(b, b). p(ab,
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(90) p(a, c) = p(b, c) → p(ā, c)
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APPENDIX *vi On Objective Disorder
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appendix *vi 371 which from the ver
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But let us now consider the view th
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favour, more probable than its nega
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appendix *vii 391 thus to a set of
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Our theorem has been derived by con
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ecome clear to us that a high degre
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probability > 1/2. (They even faile
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appendix *ix 411 corroboration or a
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special cases. To remedy these defe
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not as much as can be formalized. B
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Thus I prefer to look upon (2) and
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the same likelihood—i.e.P(e, h) =
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(D) a→ N b is true if, and only i
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appendix *x 457 edly contains impli
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appendix *x 463 But I think I have
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appendix *xi 465 motion. 2 It dispr
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appendix *xi 473 left. This will (a
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NAME INDEX The letter ‘q’ stand
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Hobbes, Th. xxiii Hossiasson, J. 26
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Thirring, H. 210q&n Tornier, E. 137
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