Conjectures and Refutations: The Growth of Scientific Knowledge.

Popper, Karl R.:

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Published by London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1972

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xiii, 431 p. Das Exemplar ist in einem sehr guten und sauberen Zustand ohne Anstreichungen. The copy is in a very good and clean condition without markings. - CONTENTS - Preface - Acknowledgements - Prefaces to the Second and Third Editions - INTRODUCTION - On the Sources of Knowledge and of Ignorance - CONJECTURES - 1 Science: Conjectures and Refutations - Appendix: Some Problems in the Philosophy of Science - 2 The Nature of Philosophical Problems and their Roots in Science - 3 Three Views Concerning Human Knowledge - 1 The Science of Galileo and Its New Betrayal - 2 The Issue at Stake - 3 The First View: Ultimate Explanation by Essences - 4 The Second View: Theories as Instruments - 5 Criticism of the Instrumentalist View - 6 The Third View: Conjectures, Truth, and Reality - 4 Towards a Rational Theory of Tradition - 5 Back to the Presocratics - Appendix: Historical Conjectures and Heraclitus on Change - 6 A Note on Berkeley as Precursor of Mach and Einstein - 7 Kant's Critique and Cosmology - 1 Kant and the Enlightenment - 2 Kant's Newtonian Cosmology - 3 The Critique and the Cosmological Problem - 4 Space and Time - 5 Kant's Copernican Revolution - 6 The Doctrine of Autonomy - 8 On the Status of Science and of Metaphysics - 1 Kant and the Logic of Experience - 2 The Problem of the Irrefutability of Philosophical Theories - 9 Why are the Calculi of Logic and Arithmetic Applicable to Reality? - 10 Truth, Rationality, and the Growth of Scientific Knowledge - 1 The Growth of Knowledge: Theories and Problems - 2 The Theory of Objective Truth: Correspondence to the Facts - 3 Truth and Content: Verisimilitude versus Probability - 4 Background Knowledge and Scientific Growth - 5 Three Requirements for the Growth of Knowledge - Appendix: A Presumably False yet Formally Highly Probable Non-Empirical Statement - REFUTATIONS - 11 The Demarcation Between Science and Metaphysics - 1 Introduction - 2 My Own View of the Problem - 3 Carnap's First Theory of Meaninglessness - 4 Carnap and the Language of Science - 5 Testability and Meaning - 6 Probability and Induction - 12 Language and the Body-Mind Problem - 1 Introduction - 2 Four Major Functions of Language - 3 A Group of Theses - 4 The Machine Argument - 5 The Causal Theory of Naming - 6 Interaction - 7 Conclusion - 13 A Note on the Body-Mind Problem - 14 Self-Reference and Meaning in Ordinary Language - 15 What is Dialectic? - 1 Dialectic Explained - 2 Hegelian Dialectic - 3 Dialectic After Hegel - 16 Prediction and Prophecy in the Social Sciences - 17 Public Opinion and Liberal Principles - 1 The Myth of Public Opinion - 2 The Dangers of Public Opinion - 3 Liberal Principles: A Group of Theses - 4 The Liberal Theory of Free Discussion - 5 The Forms of Public Opinion - 6 Some Practical Problems: Censorship and Monopolies of Publicity - 7 A Short List of Political Illustrations - 8 Summary - 18 Utopia and Violence - 19 The History of Our Time: An Optimist's View - 20 Humanism and Reason - ADDENDA - Some Technical Notes - 1 Empirical Content - 2 Probability and the Severity of Tests - 3 Verisimilitude - 4 Numerical Examples - 5 Artificial vs. Formalized Languages - 6 A Historical Note on Verisimilitude (1964) - 7 Some Further Hints on Verisimilitude (1968) - 8 Further Remarks on the Presocratics, especially on Parmenides (1968) - 9 The Presocratics: Unity or Novelty? - Index of Mottoes - Index of Names - Index of Subjects. ISBN 9780710065087 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 680.…

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Conjectures and Refutations: The Growth of Scientific Knowledge.
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Popper, Karl R.:
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London: Routledge & Kegan Paul
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1972
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English
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4th ed. (revised).
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