RC Series Bundle: Conjectures and Refutations: The Growth of Scientific Knowledge (Routledge Classics)
- Kind
- Book
- Date
- 2002-08-09
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Retrieved
- Aug 28, 2011
- ISBN
- 0415285941
- EAN
- 9780415285940
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Karl Popper's Conclusions About Good Theories
It is easy to obtain confirmations, or verifications, for nearly every theory — if we look for confirmations. Confirmations should count only if they are the result of risky predictions; that is to say, if, unenlightened by the theory in question, we should have expected an event which was incompatible with the theory…
The Difference Between Science and Pseudoscience
What I had in mind was that his previous observations may not have been much sounder than this new one; that each in its turn had been interpreted in the light of "previous experience," and at the same time counted as additional confirmation. What, I asked myself, did it confirm? No more than that a case could be…