The Logic of Scientific Discovery
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When first published in 1959, this book revolutionized contemporary thinking about science and knowledge. It remains the one of the most widely read books about science to come out of the twentieth century.
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Popperian falsifiability fails to capture what testability is.
“The fact that Popperian falsifiability fails to capture what testability is does not mean that we should abandon the latter concept.”
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Popper's criterion has the consequence that probability statements are unfalsifiable.
“In addition to entailing that many formulations of ID are falsifiable, Popper's criterion also has the consequence that probability statements are unfalsifiable.”
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- Authors
- Popper, K. R., & Weiss, G.
- Affiliations
- University of Maryland, College Park (US)
- ORCID
- Weiss, George
- Venue
- Physics Today
- Publisher
- AIP Publishing
- Published
- 1959-11-01
- Volume
- 12
- Issue
- 11
- Pages
- 53-54
- ISSN
- 0031-9228 (ISSN-L)
- 1945-0699
- OpenAlex
- W3203931103
- Cited by
- 2,717
- References
- 0
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- Type
- book review
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Physics Today (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › History and Philosophy of Science › Philosophy, Science, and History
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › History and Philosophy of Science › Philosophy and History of Science
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Philosophy › Literary, Cultural, Historical Analysis
- Keywords
- scientific discovery, philosophy of science, scientific knowledge, scientific method, epistemology of science
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