Aspects of Scientific Explanation: And Other Essays in the Philosophy of Science, Volume 2 |
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... Hypotheses of this kind will be called absolutely or defini- tively verifiable ; and the concept of absolute or definitive falsifiability will be construed analogously . While the existence of hypotheses which are relatively verifiable ...
... Hypotheses of this kind will be called absolutely or defini- tively verifiable ; and the concept of absolute or definitive falsifiability will be construed analogously . While the existence of hypotheses which are relatively verifiable ...
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... hypotheses ) . The situation becomes clearer when we put the question into this form : Shall we allow , in our ... hypotheses which are entailed by accepted observation reports are absolutely verified , nor are those hypotheses which are ...
... hypotheses ) . The situation becomes clearer when we put the question into this form : Shall we allow , in our ... hypotheses which are entailed by accepted observation reports are absolutely verified , nor are those hypotheses which are ...
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... hypotheses which connect certain characteristics of individual or group life with others ; but in many cases , the content of the hypotheses which are tacitly assumed in a given explanation can be reconstructed only quite approximately ...
... hypotheses which connect certain characteristics of individual or group life with others ; but in many cases , the content of the hypotheses which are tacitly assumed in a given explanation can be reconstructed only quite approximately ...
Contents
Studies in the Logic of Confirmation | 3 |
Postscript 1964 on Confirmation | 47 |
Inductive Inconsistencies | 53 |
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