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A scientist, whether theorist or experimenter, puts forward statements, or systems of statements, and tests them step by step. In the field of the empirical sciences, more particularly, he constructs hypotheses, or systems of theories, and tests them against experience by observation and experiment.
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Section 1
H. Reichenbach, Erkenntnis 1 (1930), 186 (cf. also p. 64 f.).
Reichenbach, ibid., p. 67.
Cf. J. M. Keynes, A Treatise on Probability (1921); O. Külpe, Vorlesungen über Logic (ed. by Selz, 1923 ); Reichenbach (who uses the term ‘probability implications’), ‘Axiomatik der Wahrscheinlichkeitrechnung’, Mathem. Zeitschr. 34 (1932); and in many other places.
Cf. J. M. Keynes, A Treatise on Probability (1921); O. Külpe, Vorlesungen über Logic (ed. by Selz, 1923 ); Reichenbach (who uses the term ‘probability implications’), ‘Axiomatik der Wahrscheinlichkeitrechnung’, Mathem. Zeitschr. 34 (1932); and in many other places.
Cf. J. M. Keynes, A Treatise on Probability (1921); O. Külpe, Vorlesungen über Logic (ed. by Selz, 1923 ); Reichenbach (who uses the term ‘probability implications’), ‘Axiomatik der Wahrscheinlichkeitrechnung’, Mathem. Zeitschr. 34 (1932); and in many other places.
Reichenbach, Erkenntnis 1 (1930), 186.
Section 4
Cf. also Planck, Positivismus undreale Aussenwelt (1931) and Einstein, ‘Die Religiositat der Forschung’, in Mein Weltbild (1934), p. 43; English translation by A. Harris: The World as I See It (1935), p. 23 ff. *See also Section 85, and my Postscript.
Cf. also Planck, Positivismus undreale Aussenwelt (1931) and Einstein, ‘Die Religiositat der Forschung’, in Mein Weltbild (1934), p. 43; English translation by A. Harris: The World as I See It (1935), p. 23 ff. *See also Section 85, and my Postscript.
Cf. also Planck, Positivismus undreale Aussenwelt (1931) and Einstein, ‘Die Religiositat der Forschung’, in Mein Weltbild (1934), p. 43; English translation by A. Harris: The World as I See It (1935), p. 23 ff. *See also Section 85, and my Postscript.
Section 6
Schlick, Naturwissenschaften 19 (1931), 150.
Waismann, Erkenntnis 1 (1930), 229.
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Popper, K.R. (1976). Some Fundamental Problems in the Logic of Scientific Discovery. In: Harding, S.G. (eds) Can Theories be Refuted?. Synthese Library, vol 81. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-1863-0_5
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